brother
brother
I. broth‧er1 S1 W1 /ˈbrʌðə $ -ər/ noun [COUNTABLE] [Word Family: noun: brother, brotherhood; adjective: brotherly] [Language : Old English; Origin : brothor] 1. a male who has the same parents as you ⇨ sister: ▪ I have two brothers, William and Mark. elder/older/younger etc brother ▪ My younger brother is a doctor. little/kid brother (=younger brother) ▪ I have to take my little brother to school. ▪ My big brother (=older brother) has always looked after me. ▪ my twin brother
2. spoken informal a word meaning a black man, used especially by other black men
3. a male member of a group with the same interests, religion, profession etc as you
4. (plural brothers or brethren) a male member of a religious group, especially a monk: ▪ Brother Justin
5. American English a member of a fraternity (=a club of male university students)
6. brothers in arms literary soldiers who have fought together in a war ⇨ Big Brother, blood brother, HALF BROTHER, stepbrother • • • COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + brother ▪an older/elder brother ▪ I have two older brothers. ▪a big brother (=older brother - used especially by or to children) ▪ Jake was my big brother and I admired him. ▪a younger brother ▪ Do you have any younger brothers? ▪a little brother (also a kid brother American English) (=younger brother) ▪ My kid brother was always annoying me. ▪a baby brother (=brother who is still a baby) ▪ Mum let me hold my new baby brother. ▪a twin brother ▪ Luke and his twin brother Sam went everywhere together. ▪a half-brother (=brother with only one parent the same as yours) ▪ I never really liked my half-brother. ▪a step-brother (=the son of your stepfather or stepmother) ▪ His dad’s new wife brought him two step-brothers.
II. brother2 interjection especially American English used to show you are annoyed or surprised: ▪ Oh, brother – I really don’t want to deal with this now.
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a baby son/daughter/brother/sister ▪ We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben. blood brother elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc ▪ His elder son Liam became a lawyer. eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc ▪ My eldest daughter is 17. long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc sb’s little brother/sister (=a younger brother or sister who is still a child) ▪ Her little brother and sister were fighting again. twin sister/brother ▪ Meet my twin sister. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE big ▪ I reckon most little boys believe that their favourite big brother can conquer the world and can do no wrong. ▪ First time my big brother comes to visit me in how many years has it been now? ▪ Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother. ▪ B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach. ▪ My big brother Carl became the most utterly-spoiled and pampered child of all. ▪ Ginny, her dad was abusive, and her big brother used to beat her up. ▪ They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards. ▪ The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers. elder ▪ Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother, Henry. ▪ Paralysed as he was, his elder brother Edwin could never father a child. ▪ Back in the village he is the patriarch, since his father and elder brother are dead. ▪ Many were also referred by elder brothers and sisters or friends who had already been placed. ▪ The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother. ▪ This was because of his elder brother Frank, whose academic career was already starred. eldest ▪ My eldest brother, Joe, used to take correspondence courses, so one lived in an environment of self-improvement. ▪ Her eldest brother thought of nothing but the day when he'd have the farm and be able to marry his sweetheart. ▪ Do you remember Will, my eldest brother? ▪ At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother. ▪ She says they once belonged to her eldest brother. ▪ It was her third eldest brother John of Cawdor who entered. ▪ He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey. little ▪ On that occasion it was my little brother Jerry who shone. ▪ Her little brother sobbed, and all of them looked sadly at Bill. ▪ His little, chesty brother had made it. ▪ She is also mean to my little brother. ▪ When Kylie was two, little brother Brendan was born, and a year later Danielle completed the Minogue family. ▪ It was Tess who worried and worked and felt responsible for her little brothers and sisters. ▪ Brian's my little brother, did I tell you? old ▪ Soon Carolyn was the favourite story reader, both with Sylvia and her older brother Robin. ▪ When the woman marries the older brother, younger brother is heartbroken. ▪ My older brother got all these O- levels. ▪ He said that he was barely on speaking terms with his older brother and sister, though they lived at home. ▪ Besides, he was with his older brother. ▪ Her parents and 9-year-\\#old brother were in the house at the time. ▪ I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s, but we were actually swimmers. ▪ Charles Horton Cooley as a friend or older brother. twin ▪ My twin brother appeared by the age of about ten to have some hearing loss. ▪ These twin brothers were Giants, but they did not look like the monsters of old. ▪ I have a twin brother and it seemed that he was allowed to do all the things I wasn't. ▪ Some may find him placing far too much emphasis on the impact of his alcoholic parents and stillborn twin brother, Jesse. ▪ He gave his name as Robin Ganguly, his twin brother. ▪ He has a twin brother named Arthur, who is also 126 at the university here. ▪ Here he is aged 15 with twin brother Mark, who's a normal size. ▪ Both his parents and his younger twin brothers died several years ago. young ▪ His one younger brother works in the furniture business. ▪ Worse, it suggests that his questioners had confused him with his younger brother, Alfredo. ▪ His younger brother would say a verse and then they'd put it together. ▪ He has a younger brother, Bobby Mariucci, who lives in Stockton. ▪ Within a month she married Johnny Hesketh, the younger brother of Lord Hesketh. ▪ He is the son of Sir Charles Baskerville's younger brother, who died some years ago. ▪ Edward M.. Kennedy, the younger brother of the slain president, would be his 1972 rival. NOUN baby ▪ Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy, and we had a new baby brother, Geoff. ▪ She was responsible for raising her baby brother Aaron. ▪ When he pinches his baby brother he seems indifferent to the infant's distress. ▪ I slept in the same room as my baby brother. ▪ Edward seemed quite grown up, quiet and interesting - and very good-looking instead of pretty like his baby brother! ▪ What would have happened to me if she had died, leaving a baby brother? ▪ My baby brother was on top of the refrigerator on a bed of clean nappies and towels in his plastic baby bath-tub. ▪ Since the birth of her baby brother she had turned really nasty. half ▪ Celie is fourteen years old, she has one sister, Nettie and numerous half brothers and sisters. ▪ The president's half brother and one of his sons sued the government for trampling on their civil rights! VERB kill ▪ Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born. ▪ Eaglets often kill their younger brothers and sisters in the nest. ▪ She'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother. ▪ Brother killed brother in the Civil War. ▪ Would he have killed my brother? ▪ Erik claimed his father threatened to kill him and his brother to stop Lyle from exposing him as a child molester. ▪ Then, with the Frankish king out of the way, he besieged and killed his brother in the city of Vienne. ▪ Some one killed my brother with a car. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES big sister/brother ▪ Sit up like a big girl and eat your dinner. ▪ B got serious about basketball early, a first grader watching her big brother play and her father coach. ▪ He was my big brother and now he's dead. ▪ I say bigger brother, but the 880 is only really comparable with the 990 for resolution and performance. ▪ Soon after that I saw her big sister Barbie in Mrs Marriot's. ▪ Spider was a big brother, a mentor, a guidance counselor that put the whole world in his hands. ▪ Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years. ▪ The box costs £8,000 and runs the same multiprotocol routing software as its big brothers. ▪ They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards. foster brother/sister ▪ Her foster brother's misinformation must be dispelled, but what did she say? ▪ I shan't be able to treat you now as if you were my foster sister, Jenny. ▪ She knew her foster brother was unreliable. ▪ The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers. kid sister/brother ▪ He has a kid sister in the fourth grade at school. ▪ I suddenly realized Bobby was more than just an annoying kid brother who always wanted to use my stuff. ▪ And Terry was her kid brother. ▪ During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister. ▪ He told me he asked his 4-year-old kid sister the same questions. ▪ I met his kid brother Ed, the flight nurse, back in Beckley, West Virginia, their hometown. ▪ Most of them were older than I was, and I was like a kid brother, always hanging around. ▪ Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money. ▪ Still the kid sister to him, she thought dismally. ▪ You may have heard of his kid brother. middle brother/child/daughter etc ▪ My middle daughter was like that, tall and slim and you could hardly tell. ▪ My older brother played Elvis music at his wedding, and my middle brother and I rolled our eyes. ▪ Now, for the middle child. ▪ Richard Nixon: A middle child who became known for diplomacy in foreign affairs, among other things. ▪ The wronged self Peter is the middle child of five. ▪ They may send the middle children to Jessy's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I have two brothers, James and Karl. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He came to the defense of his younger brother, Von, by swinging a chain at his attacker. ▪ He was friend, father, brother, neighbor, lover. ▪ His decision to send her away from her home and brother into an alien world was interpreted as rejection. ▪ It was not until March in 1782 that the brothers made the error that was the beginning of their undoing. ▪ My brother hangs out with people who beat people up as like a job. ▪ Personally, I don't believe the allegations which are being made against him and his brother. ▪ She remembers that people told them they looked alike, and they joked that they were brother and sister.
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