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Definition: SWORN BROTHERS |
SWORN BROTHERS1. Originally, companions in arms who took an oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sworn Brothers "in the Old English law, were persons who by mutual oath covenanted to share each other's fortune." (Burrill.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SWORN BROTHERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 把兄弟 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kenyerespajtások, jó barátok (fast friends), hűséges fegyvertársak. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 兄弟の義'結ぶ (become sworn brothers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きょう いのぎ'むすぶ (become sworn brothers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ornsway othersbray названые братья, побратимы. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-n-o-o-r-r-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-4 letters: borrowers, honeworts, hornworts, snowshoer, sorrowers, whoresons. | |
-5 letters: bestrown, bestrows, bethorns, boosters, borrower, bowshots, brothers, brownest, browsers, honewort, honorers, hornwort, northers, orthoses, reshoots, roosters, sheroots, shooters, shortens, snorters, snowshoe, soothers, sorbents, sorrower, swooners, theorbos, throwers, trowsers, whoreson. | |
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