1treated as singular or plural A group of people sharing a common profession or interests.

狩猎协会的会员。

1. 1.1North American A male students' society in a university or college.
   〈北美〉男大学生联谊会
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   • The projects themselves were trivial, closer to a test contrived by a college fraternity than a business school, and that was the point.
   • Anyone who has been a member of a sorority or fraternity will be acquainted with some of the letter names.
   • It seems the awful practice of hazing is not just limited to college sororities and fraternities.
   • Funding would support new systems in college dormitories as well as fraternity and sorority housing.
   • Administrators and faculty leaders have pushed for integration of the school's fraternities and sororities.
   • Students who lived on campus and were involved in fraternities, sororities or extracurricular activities were less likely to drop out of college.
   • In the 38 years since blacks students were admitted to the University of Alabama, none of the school's white fraternities and sororities has knowingly accepted an African American as a member.
   • Hazing has a deep-rooted association with college fraternities, athletics, and the military.
   • Locally, businesses and Iowa State University fraternities and sororities also contributed.
   • He was also active in intramural athletics and a dramatics group and was president of his college fraternity.
   • Targeted populations include freshmen, sorority and fraternity members, and students who have been caught violating college alcohol policies.
   • It has a gay fraternity, a lesbian sorority, and several gay student groups.
   • Purdue University suspended a fraternity for five years and disciplined two others in April for various infractions during a party and during a fight at the student union.
   • During the course of the weekend, the fraternities and sororities on campus competed against each other in a variety of events.
   • Single-sex social organizations, such as fraternities and sororities, may also affect late adolescents' attitudes and actions.
   • This incident is particularly distressing to the members of the University administration because all fraternities and sororities participated in a workshop a year ago to address a similar situation at another institution.
   • America's Black college-based fraternity and sorority movement is rapidly approaching two historic milestones.
   • Our conversation concerned our roles as fraternity and sorority people while in college.
   • Other efforts to help students utilize their time and decrease their stress are offered through the university recreation center and individual sororities and fraternities.
   • The news item was on college fraternities - or ‘frat boys’ - and their relationship to violence against women.

   Synonyms

   society, club, association, guild, lodge, union, organization, alliance, brotherhood

   group, set, circle, clique, coterie, clan

   sorority, sisterhood

   rare sodality, confraternity
2. 1.2 A religious or Masonic society or guild.
   宗教组织；共济会；行会
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   • It was about differences. [Interruption] I say to the member opposite, who is ranting, that at that time there was difference between the religious fraternity.
   • They belong to the Greek Orthodox fraternity, which shares control over the church with other denominations but is the dominant force within the sacred site.
   • He appealed to Church leaders to consult more with members of the Christian fraternity before making statements on behalf of their members to avoid divisions in the church.
   • During this time churches had been plundered, pious fraternities dissolved, new monastic vows forbidden, and many religious houses closed down.
   • The British converted it into an Anglican Church in 1795 and in 1949 it joined the fraternity of the Church of South India.
   • For centuries, traditional Maya dances have been preserved by the religious men's fraternities called cofradias.
   • Thus, membership of one of the guilds or fraternities which became common features of the Christian life in towns in this period might require a substantial entry fee as well as many incidental expenses later.
   • This, he said, had helped ease the poverty levels and called on the Church fraternity to emulate the Catholics' gesture.
   • It has smaller fraternities of brothers living among the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh, Calcutta and Brazil, but the center of the community is Taize.
   • Many noted that the fraternity served the churches through its inculcation of moral virtues and brotherly love.
   • Katherine was also the member of at least two religious fraternities that had dedications to St Katherine.
   • The rest of the church fraternity in NZ becomes an easy target, an easy place to direct peoples anger.
   • At the meeting, there were some who wanted him put on notice that he had violated the protocols of episcopal fraternity by acting as he did.
   • Brothers of the fraternity gave him an update of the ‘situation’ to proceed further.
   • As one of the oldest fraternities in existence today, it is not surprising that Freemasonry ‘places much importance on history which shapes and determines much of what we do,’ the Lodge Pattaya West Winds Master said.
   • Genuine synthesis was never a feasible proposition given the Muslim religious fraternity's profound horror and disdain of native traditions.

2mass noun Friendship and mutual support within a group.

自由、平等、博爱的理想。