Status or quality of brotherhood . Brotherhood. Friendship or affection between siblings or between those who treat each other as such. Name given to an asteroid (309). It is more commonly referred to in Latin: Fraternitas.
1. Brotherhood, fraternal quality in the sense of "friends who treat each other as brothers". 2nd_ By extension of the above, a united group of people in equal rank or category. See fellowship, sorority.
FRATERNITY: Asteroid number 309, in the series.