Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fraternity

2 senses of fraternity

Sense 1
fraternity, frat -- (a social club for male undergraduates)
       => club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order -- (a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today")

Sense 2
brotherhood, fraternity, sodality -- (people engaged in a particular occupation; "the medical fraternity")
       => class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")