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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. Gabe Luna:

    You learn about the humble beginnings of the family— Walter and Arthur Davidson, the Davidson brothers and of course the head engineer William Harley —and it starts in 1901, right in the beginning.

  2. Sandra Bullock:

    Warner Brothers made this movie before the whole movement, it wasn't so much eight women, but they said this is a franchise that can keep going. What's a fresh way of looking at the franchise? It's with the ladies.

  3. Charles Chincholles:

    That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

  4. Edwin Markham:

    There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

  5. Elisabeth Maxwell:

    My father was a powerful man — you know, an alpha male, really. And when you have that kind of experience, all of us, all of the brothers and sisters have had to somehow deal with that, elisabeth Maxwell was no exception. But clearly to then say, ‘ Well, you know, Elisabeth Maxwell dies, then she moves along to the next rich man. ’ I just do n’t buy that.

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