fraternal

Meaning of fraternal

adjective

of or like a brother or brothers.
his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me
(of twins) developed from separate ova and therefore genetically distinct and not necessarily of the same sex or more similar than other siblings.

late Middle English: from medieval Latin fraternalis, from Latin fraternus, from frater ‘brother’.

Information about fraternal

It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of fraternal

fra-ter-nal

It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
fraternal is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

fraternal synonyms

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Meaning brotherly:

brotherly, brotherlike

Words that rhyme with fraternal

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