Crossword clues for fraternities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fraternity \Fra*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Fraternities. [F. fraternit['e], L. fraternitas.]
The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Church, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
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Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity!
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A social club for male college undergraduates. They often have secret initiation rites, and are named by the use of two or three Greek letters. The corresponding association for women students is called a sorority.
Syn: frat.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of fraternity English)
Usage examples of "fraternities".
Far beyond anything the French can put down immediately: for, do you see, this sudden incursion must be very well-manned, with former Turkish auxiliaries, bashi-bazouks, tribal warriors, bandits and the like, all members of the Muslim fraternities or provided by them - a very formidable body indeed if it is to succeed in its aim if it is to wreck the Allied plans and to give Napoleon the chance of engaging the weakest of the opposing armies and destroying it, as he has done before.
Among these were people as widely separated as the Azgar, on the edge of the desert, and certain heretical Shiite fraternities in European Turkey, particularly Albania, Monastir, and a region close to the northern frontier, whose interpretation of the Sunna, read without the usual glosses, points to Napoleon as the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi.
The three related fraternities throughout European Turkey all agree: the men are there, and as soon as they see two months' pay laid out before them, they will move.
The three related fraternities throughout European Turkey all agree: the men are there, and as soon as they see two months’ pay laid out before them, they will move.
I speak especially of those fraternities in which indulgences, masses and good works are portioned out.
Hold to this fraternity and live up to its demands, and you have fraternities enough.
The Council in each city often seeks the opinion of the fraternities, if they have opinions worth seeking.
And the fraternities have opinions worth seeking in proportion to the amount of studying and thinking the individual servitors do.
Physical hazing in fraternities and sororities was supposed to have been banned from campus since deaths and disfigurements and serious injuries had occurred not many years before.
Thayer at fraternities, only house managers or advisors, and when Kappa girls went to fraternity parties on campus or at Cornell as they did every weekend, they did as they pleased.
Me old-line fraternities or clubs-mostly white, mostly rich-get their stuff from Hartford.
Fancy boys from fancy fraternities who belonged to fancy clubs that wouldn't spit on him, much less consider him for membership.
In both cases the old-school-tie fraternities had shot him down at the moment of escalation.