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fraternity

 noun
     
Related topics: Organizations
fra‧ter‧ni‧ty plural fraternities
1

the teaching/scientific/criminal etc fraternity

all the people who work in a particular profession or share a particular interest
2 [countable]SSO a club at an American college or university that has only male members [↪ sorority]
3 [uncountable] formal a feeling of friendship between members of a group:
fraternity between nations
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