brotherhood
part of speech
noun (brotherhood, uncountable; a brotherhood, brotherhoods)
meaning for a pupil
1) Friendship and loyalty between people, like the feeling between brothers. tree →
2) A group or society of people with the same aims or job, such as a religious brotherhood. tree →
3) The relationship of being brothers. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Tradition reads the broken staff "Binders" as the end of unity between Judah and Israel. The prophet shows that the kingdom's bond of kinship was cut. In the primary lessons: In stories, history and church life it appears in ideas of fairness and peace ("the brotherhood of all people") and in names of groups like monks or trade unions. Phrases: "brotherhood of man", "a sense of brotherhood", "a religious brotherhood".
examples
- Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Binders, that the brotherhood between Judah and Israel might be broken. (Prophets ZEC.11.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- The team felt a strong sense of brotherhood. tree →
- Martin Luther King dreamed of brotherhood between all people. tree →
- The monks lived together as a brotherhood. tree →
- Songs about peace often talk about brotherhood. tree →
- War broke the brotherhood between the two towns. tree →
- Their brotherhood lasted all their lives. tree →
- Hercules was touched with the little man's dauntless courage, and could not help acknowledging such a brotherhood with him as one hero feels for another. tree →
note
Can be uncountable (a feeling) or countable (a group). Although it says "brother", it often includes everyone; the word "sisterhood" is used for women.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «brotherhood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.