Broth"er*hood (?), n. [Brother +
-hood.] 1. The state of being brothers or a
brother.
2. An association for any purpose, as a society of
monks; a fraternity.
3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same
business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or
medical brotherhood.
4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like
kind.
A brotherhood of venerable trees.
Wordsworth.
Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.