brotherhood

Other forms of brotherhood

plural

brotherhoods·

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 brotherhood

What does brotherhood mean?

brotherhood means "the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brotherhood?

brotherhood has 3 syllables: brot-her-hood. The stress falls on "brot". In IPA it is /ˈbɹʌðɚˌhʊd/.

What is another word for brotherhood?

Close synonyms include fraternity, sodality, union, labor union, trade union. 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 brotherhood a common word?

brotherhood is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brotherhood?

19 words rhyme with brotherhood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.