Fraternity (disambiguation)

Main article: Fraternity

Fraternity is a word for brotherhood that may refer to any of numerous types of organizations:

General

• Fraternal and service organizations.

e.g. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Columbus or Freemasonry.

• Secret societies.
• Chivalric orders.
• Benefit societies, mutual aid societies and friendly societies.
• Social clubs.
• Trade unions.

e.g. Knights of Labor.

At colleges and universities

• North American organizations can be divided into kinds of organizations:
  • Fraternities and sororities‎, also called social fraternities, initiatory organizations which unite students through the undergraduate college course. See also:List of social fraternities and sororities.
  • Honor societies, organizations which recognize achievement.
  • Collegiate secret societies in North America, 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, fraternity and sorority houses, large group housing for members of a fraternity or sorority.
• Corporation (university), often considered the European equivalent of an American college fraternity.
• Studentenverbindung‎, several types of student organizations in Germany.
• Nations at Swedish universities‎, an older type of student organization.

Other uses

In Music

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

In Film

• Fraternity of Assassins is a fictional secret society in the 2008 action film Wanted.

In Zoology

• A bachelor band of animals

See also

• List of general fraternities
• List of fraternities and sororities in the Philippines‎.
• List of fraternities and sororities in the Philippines‎.
• List of fraternities and sororities in Puerto Rico‎.