blood brother

Questions about blood brother

What does blood brother mean?

blood brother means "a male with the same parents as someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for blood brother?

Close synonyms include brother. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood brother a common word?

blood brother is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.