adj.
- Of or relating to brothers: a close fraternal tie.
- Showing comradeship; brotherly.
- Of or constituting a fraternity: a fraternal association.
- Biology. Of, relating to, or being a twin developed from two separately fertilized ova; dizygotic.
[Middle English, from Old French fraternel, from Medieval Latin frāternālis, from Latin frāternus, from frāter, brother.]
fraternalism fra·ter'nal·ism n.fraternally fra·ter'nal·ly adv.
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