Usually means: Members of a group; siblings.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brethren, brethren: Merriam-Webster
  2. brethren: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brethren: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brethren: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brethren: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brethren, brethren: Wordnik
  7. brethren: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brethren, brethren: Wiktionary
  9. brethren: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brethren: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brethren: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brethren, brethren: Dictionary.com
  13. brethren: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Brethren (Australian group), Brethren (novel), Brethren (religious group), Brethren, The Brethren (Grisham novel), The Brethren (Haggard novel), The Brethren (Jim Roberts group), The Brethren (non-fiction): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Brethren: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. brethren: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. brethren: Rhymezone
  18. Brethren: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. brethren: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. brethren: FreeDictionary.org
  21. brethren: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. brethren: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. brethren: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brethren: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brethren: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BRETHREN: Masonic Dictionary
  2. brethren: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brethren: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brother as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (poetic) kinsmen
noun:  (figuratively) The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.
adjective:  Of or akin to; related; like
noun:  (Protestantism) Members of any congregation in the Anabaptist tradition of the Schwarzenau Brethren, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, some of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
noun:  (specifically) Members of the Church of the Brethren.

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