"freemasonry" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-freemasonry.wav Forms: freemasonries [plural]
Etymology: From freemason + -ry. Etymology templates: {{af|en|freemason|-ry}} freemason + -ry Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} freemasonry (countable and uncountable, plural freemasonries)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Freemasonry: the institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons. Tags: alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: Freemasonry (extra: the institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons)
    Sense id: en-freemasonry-en-noun-oQiDZysL
  2. (figuratively) Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Translations (fellowship and sympathy): مَاسُونِيَّة (māsūniyya) [feminine] (Arabic), մասոնություն (masonutʻyun) (Armenian), 同病相憐 /同病相怜 (tóngbìngxiānglián) (Chinese Mandarin), 惺惺相惜 (xīngxīngxiāngxī) (Chinese Mandarin), 意氣相投 /意气相投 (yìqìxiāngtóu) (Chinese Mandarin), vrijmetselarij [feminine] (Dutch), veljeys (Finnish), franc-maçonnerie [feminine] (French), მასონობა (masonoba) (Georgian), Freimaurerei [feminine] (German), ελευθεροτεκτονισμός (eleftherotektonismós) [masculine] (Greek), הבונים החופשיים (Hebrew), bajtársiasság (Hungarian), összetartás (Hungarian), フリーメーソン (furī mēson) (Japanese), 프리메이슨 (peurimeiseun) (Korean), maçonaria [feminine] (Portuguese), масо́нство (masónstvo) [neuter] (Russian), франкмасо́нство (frankmasónstvo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-freemasonry-en-noun-7M4wIT5W Disambiguation of 'fellowship and sympathy': 2 95 3
  3. (figuratively) Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Inflected forms

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