brotherlike
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a word derived from
brother.
brothernouna male offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; a male sibling.
Example Sentences
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I kinda like having a brotherlike dude in the house.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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And now, what is it that can keep all these together into virtually one Nation, so that they do not fall out and fight, but live at peace, in brotherlike intercourse, helping one another?
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Ceaselessly they begged to be strengthened in the conviction of immortality and of meeting again brotherlike in God.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
But the coincidence of views was very remarkable, and it lay at the foundation of that brotherlike intimacy and friendship which ever marked his relation with Murchison.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
By a conduct honorable toward the Greeks, pious to the gods, brotherlike among themselves, they justly attained a high prosperity.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy