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Bruderschaft

German, noun

Bruderschaft is spelled B-R-U-D-E-R-S-C-H-A-F-T (12 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bruderschaft is a German feminine noun meaning “fraternity (association of men who consider each other as brethren)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Brüderschaft is a different word: “brotherhood (the state of being brothers or considering each other as…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Blutsverwandtschaft mehrerer Familien derselben Gattung”.

What does Bruderschaft mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefraternity (association of men who consider each other as brethren)

  2. 2

    Austriafemininealternative form of Brüderschaft (“the state of being brethren”)

noun

as Brüderschaft
  1. 1

    femininebrotherhood (the state of being brothers or considering each other as brethren)

  2. 2

    femininealternative form of Bruderschaft (“fraternity”)

  3. 3

    feminineA drink, usually alcoholic, shared (usually between men) to seal a friendship and mark the change from the use of the plural Sie second-person pronoun to the familiar du pronoun

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Blutsverwandtschaft mehrerer Familien derselben Gattung 2. religiöse Körperschaft von Geistlichen und Laien 3. gewerkschaftliche Körperschaft von Gildenbrüdern oder Gewerkschaftsbrüdern

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Bruderschaft

  • Bruderschaften plural
  • Brüderschaften plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Bruderschaft

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Bruderschaft in German?

Bruderschaft appears 3.1 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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