Fraternity

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Fraternity is a word for brotherhood, and by extension deep friendship or camaraderie.

Organizations

• A secret society, monastic, or chivalric order
• Benefit society, mutual aid society
  • Friendly society, for a common financial or social purpose, e.g. Independent Order of Odd Fellows
  • Fraternal and service organizations, e.g. Knights of Columbus or Freemasonry
• A social club

Student Organization

• Some types of student society, social organizations of students of higher education:
  • Fraternities and sororities in Canada, United States and Puerto Rico
    • Social fraternities and sororities, organizations which serve as an extracurricular way to help college students develop character or life skills.
    • Honor societies, organizations in which membership recognizes scholastic excellence
    • Class societies, organizations in which membership is limited by year of study
    • Literary societies, organizations formed as a student-directed supplement to the academic curriculum
    • Professional fraternities, organizations which promote fellowship among those in a particular academic discipline or career field
    • Service fraternities and sororities, organizations whose primary purpose is community service
    • informally, a fraternity or sorority house, large group housing for members of a fraternity or sorority
  • Student corporations in Australia
  • Studentenverbindungen in Germany
  • Studentenverenigingen in the Netherlands
  • Nations at Swedish universities
  • Disput
  • Ordine goliardico
  • Tuna
  • Fraternities and sororities in the Philippines
  • Puerto Rican fraternities and sororities

Music

• Fraternity (band), an Australian rock group from the early 1970s, featuring AC/DC's Bon Scott
• Fraternity Records, a record label

Other

• A bachelor band, in zoology or working with animals

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