משמעות המילון של המילה "אחווה" היא קבוצה של אנשים החולקים עניין או מטרה משותפים, המשמשים לעתים קרובות לתיאור ארגון חברתי או מועדון, בדרך כלל לחברים גברים. זה יכול גם להתייחס למצב או לתחושת ידידות ותמיכה הדדית בתוך קבוצה או קהילה. המונח מזוהה לעתים קרובות עם אחווה, אחווה וסולידריות.
1. Perhaps all this pressure brought to bear on the lawless fraternity had cast doubts over who to trust, and forced a few confessions in return for lighter sentences.
2. The landlord, who was of the fraternity, ran at once to fetch his staff of office and his sword, and ranged himself on the side of his comrades the servants of Don Luis clustered round him, lest he should escape from them in the confusion the barber, seeing the house turned upside down, once more laid hold of his pack-saddle and Sancho did the same Don Quixote drew his sword and charged the officers Don Luis cried out to his servants to leave him alone and go and help Don Quixote, and Cardenio and Don Fernando, who were supporting him the curate was shouting at the top of his voice, the landlady was screaming, her daughter was wailing, Maritornes was weeping, Dorothea was aghast, Luscinda terror-stricken, and Doña Clara in a faint.
3. This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.
4. How then can this reporter, though he remains dedicated to the ideal of peace and brotherhood, condemn the desire of a certain element of the darker community in their efforts to organize and prepare for battle, as the enemy has organized into a fraternity of demonic principles and blatant symbolism that flaunts those principles?
5. It was a mysterious fraternity born of the smoke and danger of death.