Fraternity
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Fraternity is a word for brotherhood, and by extension deep friendship or camaraderie. It may refer to:
- any secret society, monastic or chivalric order, or bachelor band
- Some types of student society, social organizations of students of higher education:
- *Fraternities and sororities in Canada and the United States
- **Honor societies, organizations in which membership recognizes scholastic excellence
- **Professional fraternities, organizations which promote fellowship among those in a particular academic discipline or career field
- **Service fraternities and sororities, organizations whose primary purpose is community service
- **informally, a fraternity or sorority house, group housing for members of a fraternity or sorority
- *Student corporations in Europe
- **Studentenverbindung
- ***Burschenschaft
- ***Corps
- ***Landsmannschaft
- ***Turnerschaft
- **Nations at Swedish universities
- **Ordine goliardico
- **Tuna
- *Fraternities and sororities in the Philippines
- Benefit society, mutual aid society
- *Friendly society, for a common financial or social purpose, e.g. Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- *Fraternal and service organizations, e.g. Knights of Columbus or Freemasonry
- A social club
- Fraternity (band) ~ Australian rock group from the early 1970s, featuring AC/DC's Bon Scott
See also
- Brotherhood
- Fraternization
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité, the motto of the French Republic
- The Fraternity a 2001 Canadian film about a circle of friends.
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