blood brother
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a male with the same parents as someone else
my brother still lives with our parents
Types & categories
- male sibling hypernym
- big brother hyponym
- little brother hyponym
- stepbrother hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
a male sworn (usually by a ceremony involving the mingling of blood) to treat another as his brother
Types & categories
- ally hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | sister |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | brotherly |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | male sibling |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | big brother |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | little brother |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stepbrother |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ally |