brotherhood

Main Entry:
brotherhood [bruhth-er-hood]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: association
Synonyms: affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, comradeship, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union
Antonyms: sisterhood
Main Entry: order
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: organization
Synonyms: association, brotherhood, club, community, company, fraternity, guild, league, lodge, sect, sisterhood, society, sodality, sorority, union
Notes: an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels
Main Entry: partnership
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alliance; participation
Synonyms: affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel, chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, consociation, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest, joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, tie-up, togetherness, union
Notes: a corporation is the name used in the United States for a business association established by one or more people who later sell shares in the corporation to investors; in a partnership, there are one or more owners who share jointly in the profits, liability
Main Entry: union
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: group with shared interest, cause
Synonyms: alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, confederation, congress, employees, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union
Antonyms: management
Main Entry: sodality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fellowship
Synonyms: association, brotherhood, fraternity, league, order, society, union, unity
Main Entry: comradeship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendship
Synonyms: brotherhood, camaraderie, chumminess, closeness, companionship, fellowship
Main Entry: confederation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: union
Synonyms: alliance, association, bloc, brotherhood, cartel, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, partnership, sisterhood, society, sorority, syndicate
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity.
Category: 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage (paternity); filiation, affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism., kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood., family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood., race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.
-verbs
be related to, claim relationship with.
-adjectives
related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal., intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Order.
Category: 1. ORDER
Synonyms:
-nouns
order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres., gradation, progression; series (continuity)., subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline; orderliness., rank, place (term).
-verbs
be in order, become in order; form, fall in, draw up; arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank; rally round., adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
-adjectives
orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; arranged.
-adverbs
in order; methodically; in turn, in its turn; step by step; by regular steps, by gradations, by stages, by intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods (periodically).
-phrases
natura non facit saltum; "order is heaven's first law" [Pope]; "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca
Antonyms: disorder
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