Meaning of Fraternal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A society formed to provide mutual aid, such as insurance.
2. A fraternal twin.

Equivalents

Examples

“Here comes in the importance of the proposed bill for the uniform regulation of fraternals.”

“Accident and health insurance written by fraternals are discussed under the section on fraternals.”

“The ethnic fraternals benefitted from the favorable climate for fraternalism and voluntarism that existed in the United States, and borrowed ideas and practices from native organizations such as the AOUW, and from fraternals started earlier in the century by immigrants who by now were solid members of the middle class.”

“Her twins were adorable boy-girl fraternals who wore boy-girl clothes in the same fabric.”

“The bulk of the confusion concerns identicals who are really fraternals.”

“Tests show that even in the first year of life, the fear of strangers develops more similarly along identical twins than fraternals.”

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