brother
/ˈbɹʌðɚ/ noun A1- Son of the same parents as another person.
- A male having at least one parent in common with another person (see half-brother, stepbrother).
- A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc. · Thank you, brother.· I would like to thank the brother who just spoke.
- A form of address to a man. · Brother, can you spare a dime?· Listen, brother, I don't know what you want, but I’m not interested.
- A fellow black man.
- Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause, situation, or affection.
- Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
- Someone who is a kinsman or shares the same patriarch.
Plural brothers
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Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
Pinkney’s brother was once Minister to Bolivia.”
That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.
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