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Friary vs Brotherhood - What's the difference?

friary | brotherhood |

As nouns the difference between friary and brotherhood

is that friary is house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live while brotherhood is the state of being brothers or a brother.

As an adjective friary

is like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.

friary

English

Noun

(friaries)
  • house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live

    • Related terms

    * friar

    See also

    * convent * monastery

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
    • (Camden)

    Anagrams

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    brotherhood

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being brothers or a brother.
  • An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
  • The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
  • Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
    • A brotherhood of venerable trees. - .

    Hypernyms

    *siblinghood

    Synonyms

    * fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality, brethren

    See also

    * sisterhood

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