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brother has 7 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is sister.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a male with the same parents as someone else
“my brother still lives with our parents”
(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address
“a Benedictine Brother”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for brother come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.