[usuallybeforenoun] showing feelings of affection and kindness that you would expect a brother to show:
brotherly love / advice * He gave her a brotherly kiss on the cheek.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for brotherly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is brotherly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, brotherly is tagged as adjective.
Does brotherly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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