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noun (pl= brothers or (archaic) brethren)
- One"s male sibling.
- A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
- A male fellow member of a religious community or church.
- Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
Translations: - Dutch: broeder
- French: frère(fr)m
- German: Bruder :de: Bruder, ^ (1,2,3,4)
- Italian: fratello(it)m
- Spanish: hermano(es)m
verb
- (transitive) To treat as a brother.
- 1819, Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to ? " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Translations: Etymology: broíor, brÅíor, from Germanic - brÅíÄr, from Indo-European
- bÊrÄter-. Cognates include Dutch broeder, German Bruder, and Danish & Swedish broder, all from the same Germanic root; and from Indo-European, Latin frater, Russian ÑÑ (brat), Greek (frater), Latvian brílis, Persian (fa-Arab, ) (barídar), Old Prussian brÄti, and Welsh brawd.
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