FRATERNITY

n. 1 community, brotherhood, crowd, set, clique, coterie, circle, society, US club Rumours have been circulating in the academic fraternity for months 2 brotherliness, kinship, fellowship, camaraderie, sodality, comradeship, friendship, companionship, relatedness, closeness, association, affiliation, solidarity, unity, esprit de corps, clannishness A sense of fraternity prevents them from betraying one another 3 company, guild, clan, league, club, union, society, association She has joined the fraternity of legal clerks