brother

Other forms of brother

plural

brethren

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brother

What does brother mean?

brother means "a male with the same parents as someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brother?

brother has 2 syllables: brot-her. The stress falls on "brot". In IPA it is /ˈbɹʌðɚ/.

What is another word for brother?

Close synonyms include blood brother, buddy, chum, crony, pal. 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.

What is the opposite of brother?

The recorded antonyms are sister.

Is brother a common word?

brother is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.