Usually means: Brotherly, pertaining to brothers, sibling.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraternal: Merriam-Webster
  2. fraternal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fraternal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fraternal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fraternal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fraternal, fraternal: Wordnik
  7. fraternal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fraternal: Wiktionary
  9. fraternal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fraternal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fraternal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fraternal: Dictionary.com
  13. Fraternal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fraternal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fraternal: Rhymezone
  16. fraternal, fraternal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fraternal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. fraternal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fraternal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fraternal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. fraternal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. fraternal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fraternal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fraternal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fraternal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fraternal: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See fraternalism as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fraternal)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to a brother or brothers.
▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to a fraternity.
▸ adjective:  Platonic or friendly.
▸ adjective:  (genetics) Of twins or embryos, produced from two different eggs and sperm, and genetically distinct.
▸ noun:  A society formed to provide mutual aid, such as insurance.
▸ noun:  A fraternal twin.

Similar:
brotherly, brotherlike, biovular, siblingly, fraternalistic, brethren, confraternal, fratricidal, sisterly, fraternitylike, more...

Opposite:
maternal, paternal

Types:
Freemason, Shriner, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Jaycees, more...

Phrases:
fraternal twins, Fraternal order, fraternal orders, fraternal society, fraternal twin, more...

Adjectives:
more, only, own, numerous, identical, bottom, religious, adjective, social, several, largest

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Similar:
brotherly, brotherlike, biovular, siblingly, fraternalistic, brethren, confraternal, fratricidal, sisterly, fraternitylike, more...

Opposite:
maternal, paternal

Types:
Freemason, Shriner, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Jaycees, more...

Phrases:
fraternal twins, Fraternal order, fraternal orders, fraternal society, fraternal twin, fraternal polyandry, fraternal insurance, fraternal correction, fraternal benefit society, fraternal t's, fraternal ts, more...

Adjectives:
more, only, own, numerous, identical, bottom, religious, adjective, social, several, largest

Colors:
    royal blue,     gold,     silver,     white,     black, more...



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