Broth"er*hood (?), n. [Brother + -hood.]
1.
The state of being brothers or a brother.
2.
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
3.
The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
4.
Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
A brotherhood of venerable trees.
Wordsworth.
Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality.
© Webster 1913.