different between freemason vs brotherhood

English

Alternative forms

• free mason
• fremason

Etymology

From free +? mason.

Noun

freemason (plural freemasons)

1. A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages and early modern times.

Derived terms

• freemasonic (adjective)
• freemasonry (noun)

Translations

Descendants

• ? French: franc-maçon (calque)
  • ? Catalan: francmaçó
  • ? Polish: farmazon
  • ? Romanian: francmason
  • ? Russian: ???????? (farmazon)
    • ? Romanian: farmazon

Anagrams

• forenames

English

Etymology

From Middle English brotherhod, equivalent to brother +? -hood, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood, fraternity”), from Old English br?þorr?den (“brotherhood, fellowship”), equivalent to brother +? -red (see brotherred). More at brother, -red.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??ð?h?d/
• Hyphenation: broth?er?hood

Noun

brotherhood (countable and uncountable, plural brotherhoods)

1. The state of being brothers or a brother.
2. An association for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession

4. People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, s:Degenerate Douglas

     a brotherhood of venerable trees

Synonyms

• fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren

Hypernyms

• (state): siblinghood

Translations

See also

• sisterhood

Further reading

• brotherhood in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• brotherhood in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• brotherhood at OneLook Dictionary Search