noun [pl.] (old-fashioned)
1 used to talk to people in church or to talk about the members of a male religious group:
Let us pray, brethren.
2 people who are part of the same society as yourself:
We should do all we can to help our less fortunate brethren.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for brethren is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does brethren appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — brethren appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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