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Definition: Fraternity |
FraternityNoun1. A social club for male undergraduates. 2. People engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fraternity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
While the term fraternity can be used to describe any number of social organizations, including the Lions Club and the Shriners, Fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States and Canada. Fraternities are all-male or mixed-gender; the female-only equivalent it called a sorority. Fraternities and sororities are also referred to as student corporations or academic corporations or simply corporations.There are various types of fraternities: social, professional, and honor fraternities. The most recognizable (and cliched) form of fraternity is the college social fraternity, as lampooned by John Belushi in the film Animal House. More so than social sororities, many social fraternities maintain their own housing, usually overseen by an alumni corporation or its respective national fraternity organization. Some fraternities today are alcohol-free (referred to as "dry"), and focus on building friendship, community service, sound learning, and leadership qualities in their membership, though some are purely "social".
While the purposes of fraternities vary wildly, most of them maintain a ritual system that is highly symbolic in nature and kept a closely guarded secret. Some signs point to common ancestry in both sorority and fraternity ritual, but most is likely derived from Masonic order ritual.
The Kappa Alpha Society was founded in 1825 at Union College, Schenectady New York. It is the oldest college fraternity and was the basic model for the U.S. fraternity system. It operates today in both the United States and Canada.
List of Fraternities
- Alpha Delta Phi
- Alpha Kappa Psi
- Beta Theta Pi
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Delta Phi
- Theta Tau
- Kappa Alpha Order
- Kappa Alpha Society
- Kappa Sigma
- Sigma Phi Delta
- Sigma Phi Epsilon
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Sigma Tau Gamma
- Sigma Chi
- Sigma Nu
- Tau Kappa Epsilon
- Phi Gamma Delta known more commonly as Fiji
- Phi Delta Theta
- Phi Kappa Psi
- Pi Kappa Alpha
- Lambda Chi Alpha
- Psi Upsilon
List of Sororities
- Alpha Gamma Delta
- Alpha Delta Pi
- Alpha Phi
- Alpha Sigma Alpha
- Alpha Omega Epsilon
- Delta Delta Delta
- Gamma Phi Beta
- Delta Phi Epsilon
- Delta Gamma
- Kappa Kappa Gamma
- Kappa Alpha Theta
Other Secret Societies
- Skull and Bones
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
Fraternities and sororities outside of North America
- Studentenverbindung
Links
- Academic corporations worldwide
- International academic dictionary
- English and Latin commercium songs
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fraternities and sororities."
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A fraternity is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood.Fraternity also refers to the concept that all men are brothers, see brotherhood
- for student fraternities, see fraternities and sororities
- for other such organizations, see fraternal organization
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fraternity."
Synonyms: FraternitySynonyms: brotherhood (n), frat (n), sodality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association; (party). |
Consanguinity | Family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood. race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. |
Friendship | Noun: friendship, amity; friendliness; Adjective: brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony; (concord); peace. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fraternity |
| English words defined with "fraternity": brother ♦ chapter, chapterhouse, Confalon ♦ frat house, fraternal, Fraternities, fraternity house ♦ Guidon ♦ pinning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fraternity": CAPTAIN PODD, cottage parent ♦ Dagger-scene in the House of Commons ♦ FRANKALMOIGNE, Friar John ♦ GDI ♦ house boy, house manager ♦ Johnny Raw ♦ KNOT ♦ regalia, RESIDENCE SUPERVISOR ♦ Vere Adeptus. (references) |
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Screenplays | Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, and that certain radical theories of yours have alienated the respectable medical community so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals and branches of the medical fraternity, beyond this I can deduce little (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer) Aw. Are you in a fraternity, little boy (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Greg, what is the worst fraternity on this campus (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) It's a fraternity party, I'm in the fraternity (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) When you came to my fraternity in that blue dress, I had no choice (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fraternity (1970) Fraternity Life (2003) | |
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 | France as woman with outstretched hands with banners of liberty, equality, fraternity. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Some of the members of the Westinghouse Latin American Fraternity, on a large generator(?), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Zeta Psi fraternity house, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wolf's Head fraternity house, Yale College. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New Haven, Conn., Colister Fraternity House, Yale. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Psi Upsilon Fraternity, U[niversity] of Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Measuring F Street in the National Capitol during the rush hours of the afternoon with a one foot rule, was the initiation stunt wished on this applicant for membership in a local college fraternity ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Coolidge posed with Women's National Law Fraternity, on lawn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gift for the grangers / J. Hale Powers & Co. Fraternity & Fine Art Publishers, Cin'ti. ; Strobridge & Co. Lith. Cincinnati, O. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blondie. "I'm living at the fraternity house, instead of home, because you get more of real collegiate life there". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Arthur Hugh Clough | The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. |
Herman Melville | I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. |
Victor Hugo | Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | | | | | | | Health and fraternity. |
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Children | Cuba | On January 15, Juan Carols Gonzalez Leyva and Luis Esteban Alvarez of the Independent Fraternity of the Blind of Cuba (FRACIC) sent a letter to President Castro complaining about the difficult situation that blind persons encounter. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. |
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Rush Limbaugh | I rolled John Fund appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, addressing Trent Lott leading an effort at Ole Miss to keep blacks out of the national fraternity. |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and justice. |
Warren G. Harding | 1921-1923 | We sense the call of the human heart for fellowship, fraternity, and cooperation. |
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| "Fraternity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.12% of the time. "Fraternity" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.12% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.88% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 226 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fraternity". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Joah | N/A | Biblical | Fraternity |
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Expression using "fraternity": fraternity house. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "fraternity": part-fraternity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fraternity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vëllazëri (brotherhood, communion, fellowship, phratry), miqësi (amiability, amicability, amity, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, good fellowship, goodness, unity). (various references) | |
Arabic | نادي رجال, إخاء (brotherhood), أخوية (brotherhood, order), أخوة (brotherhood). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | студентско сдружение, общност (aggregation, commonalty, communion, community, intercommunity, public), братство (brotherhood, guild, sodality). (various references) | |
Chinese | "谊会 (Fraternities), 兄弟會 . (various references) | |
Czech | bratrstvo (brotherhood), bratrství (brotherhood). (various references) | |
Dutch | studentenvereniging (sorority). (various references) | |
Finnish | veljeys (brotherhood, brotherliness), veljeskunta (brotherhood, order). (various references) | |
French | fraternité, société d'étudiants, corporation d'étudiants, confrérie, con frérie, club universitaire, association d'étudiants. (various references) | |
German | bruderschaft (brotherhood), studentenverbindung (sorority, students' association), Brüderschaft (brotherhood). (various references) | |
Greek | αδερφότητα, αδελφότησ (fellow ship, sisterhood, sodality), αδελφότητα (brotherhood, fellow ship, fellowship, sisterhood, sodality), αδελφοσύνη (brotherhood, brotherliness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוע"ון 'ברים, מס"ר (formation, order, parade), אחו" (brotherhood, comradeship, fellowship, guild). (various references) | |
Hungarian | testvériesség (brotherliness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | persaudaraan (brotherhood, brotherly). (various references) | |
Italian | fraternit (brotherhood, brotherliness), fratellanza (brotherhood, brotherliness), confraternit (confraternity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同人 (clique, colleague, comrade, kindred spirits, literary group, said person, same person), 倶楽部 (club, clubhouse, sorority), 友愛 (friendship). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くらぶ (club, clubhouse, sorority), どうに" (clique, colleague, comrade, kindred spirits, literary group, said person, same person), どうじ" (clique, colleague, comrade, kindred spirits, literary group, said person, same person, universal benevolence), ゆうあい (friendship). (various references) | |
Manx | co-vraaraghys, braaraghys (sodality). (various references) | |
Norwegian | brorskap. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aternityfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fraternidade (brotherhood), profissão (calling, career, craft, handicraft, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, work), irmandade (brotherhood, sisterhood, sodality), grêmio (association, community, society), corporação (company, corporation, fellowship, syndicate), confraria (brotherhood, friary, sisterhood, sodality). (various references) | |
Romanian | fraternitate (brotherhood), frãţie (brotherhood, brotherliness, confraternity, fellowship). (various references) | |
Russian | братство (brotherhood, confraternity, fellowship, freemasonry, sodality). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bratstvo (brotherhood, sept, sodality). (various references) | |
Spanish | fraternidad (brotherhood, sodality). (various references) | |
Swedish | samfund (academy, association, body, communion, communions, community, connection, connexion, denomination, society), broderskap (brotherhood), broderlighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | kardeşlik derneği (confraternity, fraternal, fraternal association, fraternal society), kardeşlik (brotherhood, fraternal, sisterhood, sorority), dernek (association, club, college, corporation, fellowship, gild, guild, institution, league, society, union), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, conference, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity), üniversite erkek öğrenci birliği (frat). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | братство (fellowship), братерство (brotherhood, sodality). (various references) | |
Welsh | brawdoliaeth (brotherhood). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fraternitatem, fraternitati, fraternitatis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fraternity": confraternity, interfraternity. (additional references) | |
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"Fraternity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faternity, fracternity, fratenity, fraternite, fraternitiy, fraterntity, fraternty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fraternity" (pronounced fruter"nutē) |
| 7 | -u t er" n u t ē | maternity, paternity. |
| 6 | -t er" n u t ē | eternity. |
| 5 | -er" n u t ē | modernity. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, amenity, community, dignity, disunity, divinity, femininity, humanity, immunity, impunity, indemnity, indignity, infinity, inhumanity, insanity, masculinity, obscenity, opportunity, profanity, salinity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, unity, vanity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-n-r-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: retirant, tertiary. | |
-3 letters: fainter, fattier, fritter, intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate, rattier, refrain, retiary, retrain, ternary, terrain, terrify, tertian, trainer, trinary. | |
-4 letters: aerify, artery, artier, attire, entity, errant, fainer, fairer, fatten, fatter, ferity, finery, fitter, frater, fretty, friary, infare, irater, natter, nitery, rafter, ranter, rarefy, rarify, rarity, ratify, ratine, ratite, ratten, ratter, retain, retina. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-n-r-r-t-t-y" | |
+3 letters: confraternity, interstratify. | |
+4 letters: referentiality. | |
+5 letters: interfraternity, transferability. | |
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