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What (who) is brother - definition
2000 FILM BY TAKESHI KITANO
BROTHER; Brother (Takeshi Kitano film)
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MALE SIBLING. AVOID USING WITH "RELATIVE" (P1038), USE "SIBLING" (P3373) INSTEAD
Male sibling; Bros.; Brothers (family); Brothers; Brothas; Onii-chan
(brothers)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: The old-fashioned form 'brethren' is still sometimes used as the plural for meanings 2 and 3.
1.
Your brother is a boy or a man who has the same parents as you.
Oh, so you're Peter's younger brother...
Have you got any brothers and sisters?
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
You can describe a man as your brother if he belongs to the same race, religion, country, profession, or trade union as you, or if he has similar ideas to you.
He told reporters he'd come to be with his Latvian brothers.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
3.
Brother is a title given to a man who belongs to a religious community such as a monastery.
...Brother Otto.
...the Christian Brothers community which owns the castle.
N-TITLE; N-COUNT; N-VOC
4.
Brothers is used in the names of some companies and shops.
...the film company Warner Brothers...
N-IN-NAMES
Brother
MALE SIBLING. AVOID USING WITH "RELATIVE" (P1038), USE "SIBLING" (P3373) INSTEAD
Male sibling; Bros.; Brothers (family); Brothers; Brothas; Onii-chan
·vt To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood.
II. Brother ·noun One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character.
III. Brother ·noun A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood.
IV. Brother ·noun One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, ·etc.;
- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, ·etc.
brother
MALE SIBLING. AVOID USING WITH "RELATIVE" (P1038), USE "SIBLING" (P3373) INSTEAD
Male sibling; Bros.; Brothers (family); Brothers; Brothas; Onii-chan
¦ noun
1. a man or boy in relation to other sons and daughters of his parents.
2. a male associate or fellow member of an organization.
3. N. Amer. informal a black man.
4. something which resembles or is equivalent to another.
5. (plural also brethren) Christian Church a (male) fellow Christian.
a member of a religious order of men.
¦ exclamation chiefly N. Amer. used to express annoyance or surprise.
Derivatives
brotherliness noun
brotherly adjective
Origin
OE brothor, of Gmc origin.
Wikipedia
Brother (2000 film)
Brother (Japanese: ブラザー, Hepburn: Burazā) is a 2000 gangster film starring, written, directed, and edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film premiered on September 7, 2000 at the Venice Film Festival. The plot centers on a mature yakuza gangster who has to flee to Los Angeles, where he unites forces with his little brother and his brother’s gang.
It was the first American co-production directed by Kitano and the first American co-production in which he was an actor.
Examples of use of brother
1. "Why, good evening, Brother Bains –– Brother Naylor!
2. And the brother who denies the rights of his sister: that brother is not my brother.
3. BG: Well you know that‘s true man, brother, brother, man, brother, this is please man, not...
4. Big Brother holiday camp Surprise exits from Big Brother.
5. "But your own brother against your own brother, torturing, killing.