A social club for male undergraduates.

synonym: frat.

People engaged in a particular occupation:
— The medical fraternity.

synonyms: brotherhood, sodality.

Roget 11: consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage etc. (paternity) 166; filiation^†, affiliation; lineage, agnation^†, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism.    kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german^†; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; etc. near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood.    family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood^†.    race, stock, generation; sept etc. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.    ... show more

Roget 72: assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation^†; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement^†; team; concourse, conflux^†, congregation, contesseration^†, convergence etc. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] etc. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote^†; conclave etc. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.    miscellany, collectanea^†; museum, menagerie etc. (store) 636; museology^†.    crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue^†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo^†; bunch, drive, force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda^†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment etc. (combatants) 726; host etc. (multitude) 102; populousness.    clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association etc. (party) 712.    volley, shower, storm, cloud.    group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^†, fasces^†, bale; seron^†, seroon^†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^†, stack, sheaf, haycock^†; fascicle, fascicule^†, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^†, stook^†.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^†, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation^†, cumulation; glomeration^†, agglomeration; conglobation^†; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation^†, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.], spicilegium^†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity etc. (greatness) 31.    collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.    ... show more

Roget 888: friendship, amity; friendliness etc. adj.; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony etc. (concord) 714; peace etc. 721.    firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.    cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.    affection etc. (love) 897; favoritism; good will etc. (benevolence) 906.    acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.    ... show more

Dutch: broederschap, confrèrie, confrérie
Polish: sodalicja