Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 2 compound words that contain brethren. The most common are listed below. Open brethren in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- Christian Brethrenplural of Christian Brother: A member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a worldwide Catholic religious community founded by Edmund Rice.
- Exclusive Brethrenplural of Exclusive Brother: A member of the Exclusive Brethren, a Christian evangelical movement whose members separate themselves from the rest of society.
- River BrethrenA group of historically related Anabaptist Christian denominations originating in 1770, during the Radical Pietist movement among German colonists in Pennsylvania.
- Social BrethrenA small body of evangelical Christians in the Midwestern United States, the Philippines, and Canada, whose leaders came from Baptist, Presbyterian, and Methodist backgrounds.
- United BrethrenA group of former Primitive Methodists in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire that converted en masse to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840.
- brethren in Christplural of brother in Christ: A male fellow Christian; a man who shares the speaker's belief in Christianity.
- co-brethrenplural of co-brother: One's colleague ("brother" in the same craft, occupation, or society).
- half-brethrenplural of half-brother: A male sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full brother or brother-german, from a step-brother, or from a brother-like figure such as a blood brother.
- lay brethrenplural of lay brother: A layman who is a member of a religious congregation or monastic order without the intention to become a priest.
- womb-brethrenplural of womb-brother: A brother uterine.
- brethren-in-lawplural of brother-in-law: A male relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:
- blood brethrenplural of blood brother: An unrelated male considered to share a brother-like relationship established by a ceremonial sharing of blood in some cultures.
- step-brethrenplural of step-brother: The son of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
- brethren-in-armsplural of brother-in-arms: comrade in arms (fellow combatant or soldier)
Compound words 2
- BrethrenismSynonym of Plymouthism: The beliefs of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative evangelical Christian movement.
- stepbrethrenplural of stepbrother: The son of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.