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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

友愛

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yuuai

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fraternity/frəˈtɜː.nə.ti/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"その組織は会員間の友愛を重んじている。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A group of people sharing a common profession or interests.

    "He was well respected within the legal fraternity."
  2. 2

    A male student organization in a US college or university.

    "He joined a fraternity during his freshman year at university."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Middle English word fraternite, which came from Old French fraternite and ultimately from the Latin fraternitatem, meaning 'brotherhood'. It traces back to the Latin root fratern-, meaning 'brother', combined with the noun-forming suffix -tas.

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