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Brotherhood is the feeling of closeness, loyalty, and support between people, like the bond between brothers, even if they aren't actually related. Soldiers who fight together, members of a club, or people who share the same struggle often talk about their 'brotherhood.' 'Brotherhood' can also be the name of an organized group of men who share a purpose, like a religious brotherhood.
兄弟情誼；兄弟會、團體
組成brother + -hood (a noun ending meaning 'the state or group of')
同家族的字
- brotherthe base word this comes from
- sisterhoodthe same pattern, but for women
- neighborhoodthe same '-hood' ending, meaning the area or state of being neighbors
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brotherhoodnoun/ˈbɹʌðɚˌhʊd/
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The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).
- brotherdom
- "Read lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you. "Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood."
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An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- James formed a kind of brotherhood for ex-pats who were working in Valencia.
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All the people engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
- the legal brotherhood
- the medical brotherhood
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People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
- a brotherhood of venerable trees
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。