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fra⋅ter⋅ni⋅ty
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a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
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a group of persons associated by or as if by ties of brotherhood.
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any group or class of persons having common purposes, interests, etc.: the medical fraternity.
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an organization of laymen for religious or charitable purposes; sodality.
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the quality of being brotherly; brotherhood: liberty, equality, and fraternity.
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the relation of a brother or between brothers.
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