Some articles on brother, brothers:
... Karen's brother, Richard, developed an interest in music at an early age, becoming a piano prodigy ... The conductor (who had previously taught her older brother) gave her the glockenspiel, an instrument she disliked ... She and her brother made their first recordings in 1965 and 1966 ...
... It was announced in December 2007 that the brothers would play Big Brother during 2008's Big Brother Celebrity Hijack ...
... With his brother Pheidippus, Antiphus lead the forces of Calydnae, Cos, Carpathus, Casus and Nisyrus on the side of the Greeks against Troy ... Antiphus, son of Myrmidon and Peisidice, brother of Actor ... Antiphus of Maeonia, son of Talaemenes and brother of Mesthles both he and his brother were allies of Priam in the Trojan War ...
... (Πλήξιππος) is a name that refers to A son of Thestius, who, together with his brother Toxeus, participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar ... A son of Phineus and Cleopatra, brother of Pandion ... He and his brother were blinded by Phineus at the instigation of their stepmother Idaea ...
... and had to be cared for by relatives, mainly his brother James - the only one of the four Quarry brothers not to box professionally ... Jerry's brother, Mike, who had contended for the light-heavyweight championship, was himself disabled by pugilistic dementia in later life and died as a result on June 11, 2006 ... Another brother, Bobby, suffers from Parkinson's disease, believed to be the result of his own, less-heralded heavyweight boxing career ...
More definitions of "brother":
- (noun): A male with the same parents as someone else.
Example: "My brother still lives with our parents"
Synonyms: blood brother
- (noun): Used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement.
Synonyms: comrade
- (noun): A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick
- (noun): A male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion of other group).
Example: "None of his brothers would betray him"
Famous quotes containing the word brother:
“Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”
—Adele Faber (20th century)
“There is only one place for the women who served and that is on the same site with our brother soldiers. These women have touched thousands of those names on the wall. We have to be at that spot, physically, spiritually and emotionally.”
—Diane Carlson Evans (b. c. 1943)
“Many of our German friends before the war would come as our guest to hunt wild pig. I refused to invite Goering. I could not tolerate his killing a wild pig— seemed too much like brother against brother.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz, U.S. director, screenwriter. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Countess (Danielle Darrieux)