blood brother
Americannoun
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a person's brother by birth.
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a male person bound to another by ties of great friendship.
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something usually associated with or thought to exist inseparably from another thing, quality, circumstance, etc..
Humility is often the blood brother of patience.
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a male established in a close relationship with another male through the performance of a specific ritual, as the commingling of blood.
noun
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a brother by birth
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a man or boy who has sworn to treat another as his brother, often in a ceremony in which their blood is mingled
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Etymology
Origin of blood brother
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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Thou art The great Blood-Brother of my heart.
From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle
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