Brother vs Brothers - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between brother and brothers

is that brother is son of the same parents as another person while brothers is plural of lang=en.

As a verb brother

is to treat as a brother.

As an interjection brother

is Expressing exasperation.

brother
English

Alternative forms
* brotha (Jamaican English)
Noun
(en-noun)
Son of the same parents as another person.

* , chapter=10
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A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).

A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

* The Bible, Deuteronomy 23:19 (NKJV)

You shall not charge interest to your brother —interest on money or'' food ''or anything that is lent out at interest.

(African American Vernacular English) A black male.

* 2013 , Gwyneth Bolton, Ready for Love

But damn if they knew when to just leave a brother alone and let him sulk in silence.

Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.

*

And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers .

Usage notes
The plural “brethren” is not used for biological brothers in contemporary English (although it was in older usage). It is, however, still very common when meaning “members of a religious order”. It is also sometimes used in other figurative senses, e.g. “adherents of the same religion”, “countrymen”, and the like.
Coordinate terms
* (with regards to gender) sister
Hypernyms
* (son of common parents) sibling
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "brother") * big brother/Big Brother * blood brother * bro * brother german * brother-in-arms * brother-in-law * Brother Jonathan * brothered * brotherhood * brotherlike * brotherly * bruv * bruvver * Christian Brother * co-brother * cousin brother/cousin-brother * everyone and their brother/everybody and their brother * foster brother/foster-brother * half brother/half-brother * lay brother * little brother * milk brother * soul brother * stepbrother/step-brother * uterine brother * Xaverian Brother
Related terms
* friar * fraternal * fraternity
Descendants
* Bahamian Creole: (l) * Belize Kriol English: (l) * Bislama: (l) * Cameroon Pidgin: * Gullah: (l) * Islander Creole English: (l) * Krio: (l) * Nicaraguan Creole: (l) * Nigerian Pidgin: (l) * Pichinglis: * Pijin: (l) * Portuguese: * Saramaccan: * Tok Pisin: (l), (l)
Verb
(en verb)
To treat as a brother.

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

* Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother ?

Interjection
(en interjection)

We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother !

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brothers
English

Noun
(head) (p)

male siblings

males of negro descent, or supporters of equal rights

persons, particularly males, connected by a common cause or situation

"The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers''', as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny."'' — Martin Luther King Jr. (' 1963 )

See also
* brethren