BLOOD BROTHER


Meaning of BLOOD BROTHER in English

noun

1. : a brother by birth

2. : one that is bound by a blood bond by virtue of a ceremony (as of the mingling of blood)

3. : something viewed as basically related to some other often apparently incongruous item

the social idealist is declared to be blood brother to the snake-oil practitioner — M.B.Smith

soldiering and drinking have always been blood brothers — James Jones

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.