Need another word that means the same as “brothers”? Find 7 synonyms and 30 related words for “brothers” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Brothers” are: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick, blood brother, comrade
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “brothers” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| blood brother | The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets. |
| buddy | A working companion with whom close cooperation is required. I m working on it buddy. |
| chum | A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. An old school chum. |
| comrade | A fellow member of the Communist Party. Comrades in arms. |
| crony | A close friend or companion. He went gambling with his cronies. |
| pal | Used as a form of address, especially to indicate anger or aggression. We ve been pals for a long time. |
| sidekick | A person’s assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person. Sherlock Holmes bumbling sidekick Watson. |
| acquaintance | Acquaintances considered collectively. The pupils had little acquaintance with the language. |
| aunt | An unrelated adult female friend, especially of a child. She was brought up by her aunt and uncle. |
| avuncular | Relating to the relationship between men and the children of their siblings. He was avuncular reassuring and trustworthy. |
| buddy | A working companion with whom close cooperation is required. I decided to buddy up to them. |
| comrade | Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement. Comrades in arms. |
| cousin | A person in one’s wider extended family, to whom one is not closely related. Our American cousins. |
| crony | A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. He went gambling with his cronies. |
| daughter | A thing personified as a daughter in relation to its origin or source. A daughter of the dry savannas of Africa. |
| elder | A member of a senate or governing body. She was two years his elder. |
| familial | Relating to or occurring in a family or its members. Certain diseases are familial. |
| family | The children of a person or couple being discussed. She has the sole responsibility for a large family. |
| fraternal | (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova. His lack of fraternal feeling shocked me. |
| friend | Add someone to a list of friends or contacts on a social networking website. They are friends of the library. |
| grandma | The mother of your father or mother. Grandma Wendy. |
| grandparent | A parent of your father or mother. It must be a great blessing to have Chloe s grandparents living nearby. |
| kinsfolk | People descended from a common ancestor. |
| mate | South American tea like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate. He lost the mate to his shoe. |
| maternal | Characteristic of a mother- Dorothy Sayers. Warm maternal affection for her guest. |
| mother | A woman who has given birth to a child also used as a term of address to your mother. She mothered her husband insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter. |
| nephew | A son of one’s brother or sister, or of one’s brother-in-law or sister-in-law. |
| niece | A daughter of your brother or sister. |
| pal | Become friends; act friendly towards. She palled up with some English chaps. |
| parent | Be or act as a parent to a child. Stems will root down creating a new crown near the parent. |
| paternal | Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent. A paternal aunt. |
| sibling | A person’s brother or sister. |
| sister | A woman or girl in relation to other daughters and sons of her parents. Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services. |
| sisterhood | A religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns. Canadian feminists acknowledge their sisterhood with women around the globe. |
| stepmother | A woman who is the wife or partner of one’s father after the divorce or separation of one’s parents or the death of one’s mother. |
| twin | Of a crystal twinned. The hotel has 54 rooms of which 4 are twins. |
| uncle | A pawnbroker. He visited his uncle. |
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