| MATERNITY | • maternity n. The state of being a mother; motherhood. • maternity n. The state of being pregnant; pregnancy. • maternity n. A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born. |
| PATERNITY | • paternity n. Fatherhood, being a father. • paternity n. Parental descent from a father. • paternity n. (Law) legal acknowledgement of a man’s fatherhood of a child. |
| FRATERNITY | • fraternity n. The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood. • fraternity n. A group of people associated for a common purpose. • fraternity n. (US) A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters. |
| QUATERNITY | • quaternity n. (Countable) A group or set of four. • quaternity n. (Uncountable) The state of being four. • QUATERNITY n. fourness; any group of four things. |
| MATERNITIES | • maternities n. Plural of maternity. • MATERNITY n. motherhood. |
| PATERNITIES | • paternities n. Plural of paternity. • PATERNITY n. fatherhood. |
| FRATERNITIES | • fraternities n. Plural of fraternity. • FRATERNITY n. brotherhood. |
| QUATERNITIES | • quaternities n. Plural of quaternity. • QUATERNITY n. fourness; any group of four things. |
| CONFRATERNITY | • confraternity n. (Countable) A group with a common interest. • confraternity n. (Countable) A religious fraternity or brotherhood. • confraternity n. (Uncountable) Brotherly friendship. |
| CONFRATERNITIES | • confraternities n. Plural of confraternity. • CONFRATERNITY n. a society devoted esp. to a religious or charitable cause. |
| INTERFRATERNITY | • interfraternity adj. Between fraternities. • INTERFRATERNITY n. between fraternities. |