Brother

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Son of the same parents as another person.
2. isim A male having at least one parent in common with another person (see half-brother, stepbrother).
3. isim A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

   “Thank you, brother.”

4. isim A form of address to a man.

   “Brother, can you spare a dime?”

5. isim A fellow black man.

   “[Michael Jackson] went on television and said, “I don't have sex because of my religious beliefs”, and the public believed it. I know brothers was like “get the fuck out of here!”. And white people, “Michael's a special kinda guy!””

6. isim Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause, situation, or affection.

   “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.”

7. isim Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.

   “And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.”

8. isim Someone who is a kinsman or shares the same patriarch.

   “The eighteenth century text, with its antislavery message and its Adamic figuration, calls implicily for the reconciliation of all peoples as "brothers" (not the reprehensible brothers of Joseph but the cocreated brothers of Adam).”

9. fiil To treat as a brother.

   “Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother?”

10. ünlem Expressing exasperation.

    “We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother!”

11. isim Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.

    “At the monastery, Brother Stephen supervises the kitchen.”

12. isim Title of respect for an adult male member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
13. isim A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

    “The Native American had a kinship with nature, even referring to Mother Earth and Brother Bear.”