noun
- A male with the same parents as someone else.
- usage: "my brother still lives with our parents"
- synonyms: blood brother
- A male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group. )
- usage: "none of his brothers would betray him"
- A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
- Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement.
- usage: "Greetings, comrade"
- synonyms: comrade
- Roman Catholic Church. ( a title given to a monk and used as form of address)
- usage: "a Benedictine Brother"
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