fraternity
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4.9
- noun
- /frəˈtɜrnɪti/
- US
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fraternidad
- And, finally, is the fraternity house located on campus or off campus?
- sororities and fraternities
- fraternity members
- fraternity house
They're they're in the dorms and they're in the sororities and fraternities and they call them Bibles.
- They're they're in the dorms and they're in the sororities and fraternities and they call them Bibles.
- And it's that the white kids have gone the to rush the fraternities and sororities.
- Like most universities, there's an alcohol, drug and fraternity problem on most of these campuses.
- And at that state school I didn't join a fraternity.
- So I didn't know it until later because, you know, lots of drinking at the fraternity.
- And then I started to like this other guy in his fraternity and then at the same time he starts to go for one of my best friends.
- He's in, in, in, in the the fraternity.
Examples
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The award is given to each fraternity Greek house whose overall GPA is above 3.00.
Academic text (2008) -
We were in the same fraternity.
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And they are no better than the fraternity house where the college kids act crazy.
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I was never in a fraternity.
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His fraternity was having this thing called Pig Day.
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Every single brother in my fraternity has worn this suit.
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Unless I get invited to go skiing with my fraternity brothers.
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UNL first announced the fraternity had been suspended in December, citing concerns about alcohol use.
Academic text (2017) -
Now I go to my fraternity house, the Delt House, the end of that sophomore year for sophomore exams.
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During his first semester, he eagerly joined a fraternity that organized social events and community service projects.
Synonyms
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8.2
An informal group of male university students who join together for parties and other activities
Compounds
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
fraternity = fraternal (semi-transparent) = fratern + ity
The morpheme 'fratern-' is a Latin-derived combining form (not a standalone English root), and the concrete meaning 'college male society' is a specialized extension of the basic 'brotherhood' sense, so the relation is not fully obvious to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word fraternity comes from the Latin frater, which means 'brother'. So a college fraternity is like a group of 'brothers'—male students who live together, share activities, and support each other.