NOUN | group | fraternity, frat | a social club for male undergraduates |
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group | fraternity, brotherhood, sodality | people engaged in a particular occupation |
Sounds | frahter'nahtiy; frahter'nihtiy | |
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Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... |
Meaning | A social club for male undergraduates. | |
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Synonym | frat | |
Members | chapter | A local branch of some fraternity or association |
Broader | club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order | A formal association of people with similar interests |
Spanish | fraternidad | |
Adjectives | fraternal | of or relating to a fraternity / fraternity or society of usually men |
Meaning | People engaged in a particular occupation. | |
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Example | "the medical fraternity" | |
Synonyms | brotherhood, sodality | |
Members | brother | A male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) |
sodalist | A member of a sodality | |
Broader | class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class | People having the same social, economic, or educational status |
Spanish | cofradía, hermandad | |
Catalan | confraria, germandat | |
Verbs | fraternize, fraternise | be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy |
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