fraternity
noun/frəˈtɜrnɪti/
Frequency rank: #7,130 most common English word
Meaning
a social organization or brotherhood, especially one for male students at a college or university.
Example sentence
He joined fraternity during his first year at university and made lifelong friends there.
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