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[ US /fɹəˈtɝnəɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɹɐtˈɜːnə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova
    fraternal twins are biovular
  2. like or characteristic of or befitting a brother
    brotherly feelings
    close fraternal ties
  3. of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men
    a fraternal order

How To Use fraternal In A Sentence

  • The President's official visit marks the start of a more fraternal relationship between the two countries.
  • Silence has long been a tenet of mystery religions such as Wicca, as well as other fraternal organizations such as the Masons, or the Golden Dawn.
  • Like most Soviet Fraternal Force vehicles, it carried the blazon of the Afghan Army. KARA KUSH
  • Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love.
  • Despite John's objections to psychological explanations, the mother functions as the sexualized prize and arbiter in this fraternal rivalry when the brothers come to blows on her doorstep.
  • He therefore has much less of the baggage that converts often bring, and he is able to write in a largely irenic and fraternal manner.
  • Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical.
  • Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
  • Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression. Che Guevara 
  • In "A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation," a study that has now achieved almost as much renown as LeVay's, the Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and Boston University's Richard Pillard compared fifty-six "monozygotic" twins (identical twins, from the same zygote, or fertilized egg), fifty-four "dizygotic" (fraternal) twins, and fifty-seven genetically unrelated adopted brothers. Homosexuality and Biology
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