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  2. List of general fraternities - Wikipedia

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    A fraternity or fraternal organization is an organized society of men associated together in an environment of companionship and brotherhood; dedicated to the intellectual, physical, and social development of its members. Service clubs, lineage societies, and secret societies are among the fraternal organizations listed here.

  3. Fraternity - Wikipedia

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    A meeting of Freemasons in West Germany in 1948. A fraternity (from Latin frater 'brother' and -ity; whence, "brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club or fraternal order traditionally of men but also women associated together for various religious or secular aims.

  4. List of North American fraternal orders - Wikipedia

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    Fraternal Order of Eagles – Fra≤ternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) is an international fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater owners including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W. and Tim J. Considine, Harry (H.L.) Leavitt (who later joined the Loyal Order of ...

  5. List of social fraternities - Wikipedia

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    A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men while a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of collegiate North American fraternities is not exhaustive.

  6. Fraternal order - Wikipedia

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    A fraternal order is a voluntary membership group organised as an order, with an initiation ritual and traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, serving as social clubs, cultural organizations and providing a form of social welfare through ...

  7. List of social sororities and women's fraternities - Wikipedia

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    A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.

  8. Fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia

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    In North America, fraternities and sororities (Latin: fraternitas and sororitas, 'brotherhood' and 'sisterhood') are social clubs at colleges and universities.They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sororities to differentiate them from traditional not (exclusively) university-based fraternal ...

  9. List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders

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    Grand United Order of True Reformers - Founded in 1873 in Kentucky and Alabama, an African American fraternal organization that was White-led by the Independent Order of Good Templars. [9] Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers – Founded in c. 1875 in Richmond, Virginia, by the Rev. William Washington Browne.