fraternal

Meaning of fraternal

adjective
  1. of or like a brother or brothers.
    his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me
  2. (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

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

Meaning class:

class

Meaning biovular:

biovular

Meaning brotherly:

brotherly, brotherlike

Words that rhyme with fraternal

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