Fraternal
adjective
Related to brothers or showing a close connection like that of brothers.
They have a fraternal relationship.
Often appears as...
- fraternal twins
- fraternal organizations
adjective
Belonging to a society or club, usually men's, like a brotherhood.
He's a member of a fraternal association.
Often appears as...
- fraternal order
- fraternal lodge
adjective
In biology, fraternal means having developed from two different eggs in the same pregnancy.
She has fraternal twins.
Often appears as...
- fraternal twins
- fraternal birth
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adjective
Related to brothers or showing a close connection like that of brothers.
They have a fraternal relationship.
Often appears as...
- fraternal twins
- fraternal organizations
adjective
Belonging to a society or club, usually men's, like a brotherhood.
He's a member of a fraternal association.
Often appears as...
- fraternal order
- fraternal lodge
adjective
In biology, fraternal means having developed from two different eggs in the same pregnancy.
She has fraternal twins.
Often appears as...
- fraternal twins
- fraternal birth
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Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Bond
Indicates a strong emotional connection, often used to describe deep friendships or unity.
Despite not being related, their fraternal bond was unbreakable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
Although it suggests closeness, fraternal relationships can also have rivalry and conflict, like real brothers.
Their fraternal competition drove them both to excel.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
While historically male-oriented, 'fraternal' can describe relationships or groups regardless of gender.
The co-ed soccer team had a strong fraternal spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Bond
Indicates a strong emotional connection, often used to describe deep friendships or unity.
Despite not being related, their fraternal bond was unbreakable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
Although it suggests closeness, fraternal relationships can also have rivalry and conflict, like real brothers.
Their fraternal competition drove them both to excel.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
While historically male-oriented, 'fraternal' can describe relationships or groups regardless of gender.
The co-ed soccer team had a strong fraternal spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Bond
Indicates a strong emotional connection, often used to describe deep friendships or unity.
Despite not being related, their fraternal bond was unbreakable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
Although it suggests closeness, fraternal relationships can also have rivalry and conflict, like real brothers.
Their fraternal competition drove them both to excel.
Pro Tip 3/3Gender Neutral
While historically male-oriented, 'fraternal' can describe relationships or groups regardless of gender.
The co-ed soccer team had a strong fraternal spirit.
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Yuko Munakata: The...
The science could help parents, and potential parents like my student, to understand how they actually shape who their children become. Millions of children have been studied to disentangle all those shaping forces that are usually intertwined. These studies follow identical twins and fraternal twins
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Philip Rosedale: Second...
I wasn't, like, an obsessed -- you know, get A's kind of guy. I was going to say, I had a great social experience when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied physics with, and I was very competitive with them,
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Why should you read “The...
the story revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are separated for 23 years after the fateful few dozen hours in which their cousin drowns, their mother’s illicit affair is revealed, and her lover is murdered. While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion,
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You could have a secret...
Very early in her own mother’s pregnancy with her, Keegan had a fraternal twin. Keegan’s embryo absorbed some fetal stem cells from her twin’s embryo, which did not develop to term. By the time Keegan’s fetus developed an immune system, it had many cells with each genome,
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Steven Pinker: Human...
studies of identical twins who were separated at birth and then tested in adulthood show that they have astonishing similarities. And this happens in every pair of identical twins separated at birth ever studied -- but much less so with fraternal twins separated at birth.
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Steven Pinker: What our...
For example, communality applies most naturally within family or friends, but it can be used to try to transfer the mentality of sharing to groups that ordinarily would not be disposed to exercise it. For example, in brotherhoods, fraternal organizations,
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Autism — what we know...
On the other hand, there is a difference between those fraternal twins and the siblings, suggesting that there are common exposures for those fraternal twins that may not be shared as commonly with siblings alone. So this provides some of the data
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The secrets of Mozart’s...
They're finally initiated into the temple having restored balance to the kingdom. Many elements in this peculiar fairytale were inspired by Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry, a network of fraternal organizations throughout Europe.
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Multiple Husbands PIPE...
duties they're willing to help with the cooking and childcare in fraternal polyandry a family picks a wife for its oldest son the marriage can also include his younger brothers they don't have to
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Multiple Husbands PIPE...
husband's here handle domestic duties they're willing to help with the cooking and childcare in fraternal polyandry a family picks a wife for its oldest son the marriage can also include his
Video examples
Yuko Munakata: The...
The science could help parents, and potential parents like my student, to understand how they actually shape who their children become. Millions of children have been studied to disentangle all those shaping forces that are usually intertwined. These studies follow identical twins and fraternal twins
Video examples
Philip Rosedale: Second...
I wasn't, like, an obsessed -- you know, get A's kind of guy. I was going to say, I had a great social experience when I went to college that I hadn't had before, a more fraternal experience, where I met six or seven other guys who I studied physics with, and I was very competitive with them,
Video examples
Why should you read “The...
the story revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are separated for 23 years after the fateful few dozen hours in which their cousin drowns, their mother’s illicit affair is revealed, and her lover is murdered. While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion,
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You could have a secret...
Very early in her own mother’s pregnancy with her, Keegan had a fraternal twin. Keegan’s embryo absorbed some fetal stem cells from her twin’s embryo, which did not develop to term. By the time Keegan’s fetus developed an immune system, it had many cells with each genome,
Video examples
Steven Pinker: Human...
studies of identical twins who were separated at birth and then tested in adulthood show that they have astonishing similarities. And this happens in every pair of identical twins separated at birth ever studied -- but much less so with fraternal twins separated at birth.
Video examples
Steven Pinker: What our...
For example, communality applies most naturally within family or friends, but it can be used to try to transfer the mentality of sharing to groups that ordinarily would not be disposed to exercise it. For example, in brotherhoods, fraternal organizations,
Video examples
Autism — what we know...
On the other hand, there is a difference between those fraternal twins and the siblings, suggesting that there are common exposures for those fraternal twins that may not be shared as commonly with siblings alone. So this provides some of the data
Video examples
The secrets of Mozart’s...
They're finally initiated into the temple having restored balance to the kingdom. Many elements in this peculiar fairytale were inspired by Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry, a network of fraternal organizations throughout Europe.
Video examples
Multiple Husbands PIPE...
duties they're willing to help with the cooking and childcare in fraternal polyandry a family picks a wife for its oldest son the marriage can also include his younger brothers they don't have to
Video examples
Multiple Husbands PIPE...
husband's here handle domestic duties they're willing to help with the cooking and childcare in fraternal polyandry a family picks a wife for its oldest son the marriage can also include his
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Sandy Koufax
Athlete
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
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Samuel Gompers
American Activist
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Conrad Veidt
German Actor
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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Logan Marshall-Green
American Actor
I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.
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Nicolas Anelka
French Athlete
I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles - being righteous, having values.
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Mackenzie Astin
American Actor
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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Elliott Abrams
American Lawyer
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Indian Director
The film industry functions on fraternal feelings. If there is a problem, we solve it in-house.
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Norman Lamm
American Educator
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
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Sandy Koufax
Athlete
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
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Samuel Gompers
American Activist
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Conrad Veidt
German Actor
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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Logan Marshall-Green
American Actor
I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.
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Nicolas Anelka
French Athlete
I was sixteen when I converted to Islam. Beyond the fraternal aspect, my conversion did not change my life. I was already living by the same principles - being righteous, having values.
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Mackenzie Astin
American Actor
There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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Elliott Abrams
American Lawyer
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Indian Director
The film industry functions on fraternal feelings. If there is a problem, we solve it in-house.
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Norman Lamm
American Educator
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.
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