Definition of Brother

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Brother

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.

One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc.

One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.

To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.

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Brother Quotations

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mohandas Gandhi

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
Pope John Paul II

Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell

Brother Translations

brother in Afrikaans is broer
brother in Danish is broder, bror
brother in Dutch is broer, broeder
brother in Finnish is veli
brother in German is Kollege, Bruder, Bruder
brother in Italian is fratello
brother in Latin is frater
brother in Norwegian is bror
brother in Spanish is hermano
brother in Swedish is broder, bror

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