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Son of the same parents as another person.
* , chapter=10
, title= 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)
(African American Vernacular English) A black male.
* 2013 , Gwyneth Bolton, Ready for Love
Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
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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 ?
(archaic, or, literary) outside, externally
* c.1600s , (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth)
* 1900 , (Ernest Dowson), Benedictio Domini , lines 13-14
* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez) (Norton 2005, p.1100)
Lacking something.
Outside of, beyond.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
*(Thomas Burnet) (1635?-1715)
*:Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
*1967 , (George Harrison),
*:Life goes on within you and without you.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
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*, chapter=22
, title= *1967 , (George Harrison),
*:Life goes on within you and without you.
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, title= Not doing or not having done something.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
Unless, except (introducing a clause).
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*:And whanne this old man had sayd thus he came to one of tho knyghtes and sayd I haue lost alle that I haue sette in the / For thou hast rulyd the ageynste me as a warryour and vsed wrong werres with vayne glory more for the pleasyr of the world than to please me / therfor thow shalt be confounded withoute thow yelde me my tresour
*1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin, 2006, p.264:
*:‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
As a noun brother
is title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.As an adverb without is
(archaic|or|literary) outside, externally.As a preposition without is
outside of, beyond.As a conjunction without is
unless, except (introducing a clause).brother
English
Alternative forms
* brotha (Jamaican English)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers .}}
- You shall not charge interest to your brother —interest on money or'' food ''or anything that is lent out at interest.
- But damn if they knew when to just leave a brother alone and let him sulk in silence.
- 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) sisterHypernyms
* (son of common parents) siblingDerived 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 BrotherDescendants
* 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)without
English
Alternative forms
* withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)Adverb
(en adverb)- Macbeth: There's blood upon your face
- Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then
- Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.
- Strange silence here: without , the sounding street
- Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
- I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without .
- Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without .
Preposition
(English prepositions)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.}}