(n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
(n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
(n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
(2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
(3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
(4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
(6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
(7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
(10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
(11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
(13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
(14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
(15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
(16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
(17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
(18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
(19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
(20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.
Sorority
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(3) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(4) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(5) Photograph: Supplied Issues with sororities and private clubs aside, it’s not completely the school’s fault that after sorority sisters accidentally kill one of their members, another sister’s boyfriend ends up killing the guilty parties.
(6) We believe efforts to correct alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(7) In the National Union of Journalists or Women in Journalism , I feel a distinct lack of fraternity or sorority with many plying their trade on the other side.
(8) "Everyone in my sorority knows the answer to this one.
(9) Legality, sorority, equality The Arab spring was not about gender equality.
(10) But, just like a sorority house plagued by a serial killer, beware all those who stick around too long.
(11) The university estimates that about 30% of undergraduates belong to one of the six all-male final clubs, five all-female final clubs and nine fraternities and sororities or other single-sex organizations.
(12) Alarmed by the angry, persistent pounding on the sorority’s front door, no one opened it.
(13) After killing the three men, police said, Rodgers drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house.
(14) The first study is of a sample of 132 women who were sorority members or roommates of sorority members living on the campus of a large coeducational state university.
(15) Intent to join a fraternity or sorority (the Greek system) was associated with frequent drinking, binging, and high-risk CAGE and PBDS scores.
(16) Frequent heavy drinkers, cocaine users, and students with psychosocial problems appeared disproportionately among students planning to join fraternities and sororities.
(17) The sorority runs afoul of new dean of students Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, getting back to her horror roots) who forces Kappa to accept any pledges who apply or else they will lose their charter.
(18) The order came down as more than 10,000 young people began converging on Washington – campus activists, union organisers, and even members of college sororities – to lobby members of Congress to reduce America's reliance on coal.
(19) Seven hundred sixteen female UCLA students--drawn from Primary Care Clinic, Women's Health Clinic, sorority, athletic team, dance major, and undergraduate psychology class populations--completed questionnaires regarding eating disorders symptoms and attitudes compatible with the diagnostic criteria published by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, (3rd ed., DSM-III), the Eating Disorders Inventory, and related information.
(20) One of these pledges is Grace (Skyler Samuels), who is rushing the sorority because her dead mother was in it and she wants to feel closer to her.