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Definition of Fraternal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men. "A fraternal order"
2. Adjective. (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova. "Fraternal twins are biovular"
3. Adjective. Like or characteristic of or befitting a brother. "Close fraternal ties"
Definition of Fraternal
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
Definition of Fraternal
1. Adjective. Of brothers (''fraternal twins'') ¹
2. Adjective. Related through a brother (''fraternal nephew'') ¹
3. Adjective. In need of a brother or sister or friend. ¹
4. Adjective. Like brothers (''fraternal cousins'') ¹
5. Adjective. Friendly or brotherly (e.g. ''fraternal relations'' between socialist parties in different countries). ¹
6. Adjective. platonic (as ''fraternal love'' - brotherly love) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fraternal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraternal
Literary usage of Fraternal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1908)
"Now it is claimed that one man in three has membership in some fraternal order.
It is said that within the last forty-four years these fraternal ..."
2. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Stmt. of condition of life, casualty, and fraternal assessment corporations. ...
Summary of stmts. reed, from ann. returns of fraternal beneficiary assns. ..."
3. Life Insurance: A Textbook by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"The 509 fraternal orders included in the statistics of the Insurance Year Book
... The number of fraternal benefit certificates in force exceeded 8000000, ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement, California Bureau of Labor Statistics (1890)
"fraternal, with insurance superadded. 2. Assessment insurance guilds or lodges.
3. ... Of the three classes referred to, the first, or strictly fraternal ..."
5. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"There are in the neighborhood of six hundred fraternal beneficiary societies in
... Yet the organization in question is not a fraternal insurance society. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Under the influence of this feeling fraternal societies already established
introduced the insurance feature, new societies providing for it were formed, ..."
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