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Noun: fraternity  fru'tur-ni-tee
  1. A social club for male undergraduates
    - frat
     
  2. People engaged in a particular occupation
    "the medical fraternity"
    - brotherhood, sodality

Derived forms: fraternities

See also: fraternal, fraternise [Brit]

Type of: class, club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social class, social club, society, socio-economic class, stratum

Encyclopedia: Fraternity