fraternity

Other forms of fraternity

plural

fraternities·

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 fraternity

What does fraternity mean?

fraternity means "a social club for male undergraduates". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fraternity?

fraternity has 4 syllables: fra-ter-ni-ty. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /fɹəˈtɝnəti/.

What is another word for fraternity?

Close synonyms include frat, brotherhood, sodality. 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 fraternity a common word?

fraternity 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 fraternity?

1 word rhymes with fraternity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.