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Wiktionary

  1. brothersnoun

    male siblings

  2. brothersnoun

    males of negro descent, or supporters of equal rights

  3. brothersnoun

    persons, particularly males, connected by a common cause or situation

    "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." uE000101830uE001 Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)

  4. Brothersnoun

    plural of Brother, but may include female individuals

Wikipedia

  1. Brothers

    Brothers is a debut song written and recorded by Canadian country music artist Dean Brody. It was released in October 2008 as the first single from the album Dean Brody. The song is a mid-tempo ballad about the relationship between two brothers, where one of them is going to war. "Brothers" received positive reviews from critics for its content and stark contrast to other country songs on the radio. The song peaked in the Top 10 of the Radio & Records Country Singles chart in Canada and number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100. It also reached the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Brothers

    of Brother

  2. Brothers

    of Brother

Wikidata

  1. Brothers

    Brothers is a 2004 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen. The film was remade as an American production with the same title, directed by Jim Sheridan.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BROTHERS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brothers is ranked #3096 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Brothers surname appeared 11,619 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Brothers.

    79.1% or 9,193 total occurrences were White.
    15.6% or 1,813 total occurrences were Black.
    2% or 241 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 234 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 82 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.4% or 56 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'brothers' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2941

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'brothers' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2144

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brothers in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brothers in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of brothers in a Sentence

  1. Washington Republicans:

    Senator Jon Tester reminds me a lot of my big brothers back in Oklahoma (and it’s not just the flat top haircut), he’s not going to let himself get bullied by ANYONE. Not even the President of United States. … Will you make a donation to Jon Tester’s 2018 reelection campaign to help him in this fight.

  2. William Shakespeare, Henry V.:

    From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

  3. Giuseppe Mazzini:

    O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

  4. Ben Witherington III:

    The New Testament says nothing about Mary being a perpetual virgin, it says she virginally conceived Jesus, and it certainly implies that she went on to have more children after that, and his brothers and sisters are in fact his brothers and sisters.

  5. Detroit Police Chief James White:

    We understand that these numbers make media headlines, but to us, these represent people, these represent families, this represents children, this represents husbands, wives, brothers and sisters.

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