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Brother

nountop 1 000 in film dialogue

Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.

noun

  1. 1

    Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.

    At the monastery, Brother Stephen supervises the kitchen.

    Please welcome Brother Smith as he moves from his former congregation to his new congregation.

  2. 2

    Title of respect for an adult male member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.

  3. 3

    A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

    The Native American had a kinship with nature, even referring to Mother Earth and Brother Bear.

Forms

plural
Brothers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).