| Main Entry: | brotherhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, comradeship, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union |
Antonyms: |
sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | consanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization |
Synonyms: |
association, brotherhood, club, community, company, fraternity, guild, league, lodge, sect, sisterhood, society, sodality, sorority, union |
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel, chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, consociation, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest, joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, tie-up, togetherness, union |
| Main Entry: | union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group with shared interest, cause |
Synonyms: |
alliance, association, brotherhood, club, coalition, confederacy, confederation, congress, employees, federation, guild, labor union, league, local, order, sisterhood, society, sodality, syndicate, trade union |
Antonyms: |
management |
| Main Entry: | sodality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fellowship |
Synonyms: |
association, brotherhood, fraternity, league, order, society, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | comradeship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
Synonyms: |
brotherhood, camaraderie, chumminess, closeness, companionship, fellowship |
| Main Entry: | confederation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | union |
Synonyms: |
alliance, association, bloc, brotherhood, cartel, coalition, confederacy, congress, federation, fellowship, fraternity, guild, league, order, organization, partnership, sisterhood, society, sorority, syndicate |
| Concept: | [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage (paternity); filiation, affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism., kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood., family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood., race, stock, generation; sept; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.
-verbs
be related to, claim relationship with.
-adjectives
related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal., intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german.
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| Concept: | Order. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo; music of the spheres., gradation, progression; series (continuity)., subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline; orderliness., rank, place (term).
-verbs
be in order, become in order; form, fall in, draw up; arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take one's place, take one's rank; rally round., adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
-adjectives
orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; arranged.
-adverbs
in order; methodically; in turn, in its turn; step by step; by regular steps, by gradations, by stages, by intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods (periodically).
-phrases
natura non facit saltum; "order is heaven's first law" [Pope]; "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca
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Antonyms: |
disorder |
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