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brother English

Meaning brother meaning

What does brother mean?
Definitions in simple English

brother

Your brother is another male child of one or both of your parents. Two sisters and their brother died in a car accident early yesterday.

brother

a male with the same parents as someone else my brother still lives with our parents a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) none of his brothers would betray him (= comrade) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement Greetings, comrade! (= buddy) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

Brother

(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address a Benedictine Brother

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Simple sentences

If my brother were here, he would know what to do.
Tom has less money than his brother does.
The boy standing by the door is my brother.
Jane may be playing tennis with my brother.
I mistook you for your brother.
My brother helped me with my homework.
When you come next time, bring your brother.
My older brother is a teacher.
I have the same dictionary as your brother has.
My little brother goes to an elementary school.
She fell in love with her friend's brother.
Your brother will not buy it.
He's sitting next to his brother.
Tom is my older brother.
My little brother is watching TV.
My younger brother is watching TV.
My younger brother watches TV.
My parents would repudiate my brother if they ever found out he was gay.
My brother is very important. At least he thinks he is.
You look just like your big brother.
Bring your brother with you.
It is hard to distinguish you from your brother.
The boy singing a song is my brother.
My uncle's brother's son got involved in a shady business and disgraced the family.
A nephew is a son of one's brother or sister.
My desire to become a doctor grew out of looking after my sickly brother.
The doctors tell you that your brother will never wake up again.
Your brother said you'd gone to Paris.
My brother-in-law is ready to lose his temper at trifles.
My youngest brother was brought up by our grandmother.
Mary, this is Joe's brother David.

Movie subtitles

Your mom was a famous movie star a long time ago. And your brother is one of the top singer in our country. Killer, huh?
You don't have a brother, right?
Want me to be your brother?
Want to be my little brother?
Brother..
He jumped in the mouth of one to help his brother.
Welcome home, brother.
I'm surprised at how quickly you decided, brother.
Just as you lost your father, I have lost my older brother, Clovis.
Your mission brother will be.
Yes sir! Your brother will be.
I'm gonna miss my brother so much.
You blamed your brother for eating the doughnut, and now you walk out on your mission companion?
Ilovedmy Brother.
Brother?
Go with my brother Odilon and obey him.
You're too young, practically brother and sister.
Enter - his brother.
William Krafft is my brother!
I'll be very happy to help William Krafft's brother.
Your brother Werner was here.
Please allow me a little longer as I'm waiting here for my brother.
So this letter then was also meant for my brother, Werner!
Do you know anything about what happened to your brother?
Please, my lady, spare me the questions about my brother.
That's my brother. But he never told me anything about all this.
So, anyway, my cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister is gonna be bringing some by this afternoon, and I know it sounds a little stupid, but I'm kind of nervous to pick them up myself.
I guess your cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister ripped us off.
Well, I was just trying to figure out how your brother's still getting PBJs into the yard even after Pork Chop got busted.
You wanna know who my brother's using to get sandwiches into the yard?
I guess I felt bad that his supposed friend was betraying him and what my brother was doing to him, but I was just trying to do him a favour.
If my brother found out, he'd freak. And repays me by calling me a liar.
Before me, it belonged to my older brother, Drago.
You know all the stuff that's going on between your brother and the north africans?
It does become more of that big brother, little brother.
The fantasy I have for my future brother-in-law.
Ilovedmy Brother. Even as we met as a Grim Reaper and Heaven's Fairy, I loved him just like before.
Help me, Brother.
Elder Brother.

News and current affairs

The Sudairis, it seems, have apparently left their half brother alone to twist in the wind. Abdullah's proposal could weaken his position domestically, particularly in relation to the country's powerful Islamists.
I was excited to follow my older brother, who is already studying there.
Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler in place of his incapacitated half-brother King Fahd, is keen to be seen as a champion of reform.
But his half-brother and more powerful rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.
And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
Big Brother Google?
Last summer, Hadjiev's brother and sister were arrested after they collaborated on a documentary about Turkmenistan, and were tried on trumped-up charges of weapons possession.
Hadjiev's two other brothers, as well as his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, have been in Turkmenistan's notorious penal gulag since 2002, when they were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
For example, Florida (with 16 more electoral votes than Louisiana and where the president's brother governs) received its requested funding to protect its wetlands.
Is Big Brother watching me?
Moreover, when Michael Foley, brother of James Foley, one of the hostages, received a ransom demand, the FBI warned him that under US law, to pay money to terrorists is a crime.
The other, Al Umma al-Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al-Saadi, the group's former chief ideologist, and Abd al-Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military commander and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda commander Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al-Libi).
I heard about it two days later from my brother, by e-mail, who heard from a friend of his.
She went onto the icy Neva river during a bombardment, together with a baby committed to her care - my mother's 30 year-old brother.
How do you choose to treat a young girl but not her little brother?
When Guo overhears fights between her sister and brother-in-law in their crammed rented room, her aspirations to get an apartment through hard work, and to start a family with her boyfriend and soon-to-be husband, begin to fade.
After several months of job hunting, I joined my brother in a business venture buying and selling apples, honey, and other goods in neighboring Tajikistan.
Despite the watchful eyes of Big Brother in Beijing, the Internet is sowing the seeds of free speech in China.
For a while, everybody played politely along; but the tricky double-think involved in this was exposed when the younger brother, Ed, won the leadership, by a razor-thin margin, in a last-minute upset.
Orwell's Big Brother would not have been amused by this remark.
The labor ministry went to Khaled al-Azhary, a Brother who was deputy head of the Workers Union and a victim of police brutality in 2010.
His crime was failing to register a small environmental group run by him and his younger brother in their remote home village of Gonjo, in eastern Tibet.
In this arena, Ahmadinejad faces off against Ali Larijani, the speaker of the parliament, and his brother, Sadeq Larijani, who is the head of the Iranian judiciary.
This was somebody's mother or sister or brother.
This alleged perpetrator of unspeakable misdeeds is, like his victims, someone's son, someone's brother, someone's father.

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