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FRAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frat mean? 

FRAT (noun)
  The noun FRAT has 1 sense:

1. a social club for male undergraduatesplay

  Familiarity information: FRAT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRAT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A social club for male undergraduates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

frat; fraternity

Hypernyms ("frat" is a kind of...):

club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)

Meronyms (members of "frat"):

chapter (a local branch of some fraternity or association)


 Context examples 


Ruth sat near him in the stern, while the three young fellows lounged amidships, deep in a wordy wrangle over "frat" affairs.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes, too, when he frightens me, it seems that he is a bulldog I have taken for a plaything, like some of the 'frat' girls, and he is tugging hard, and showing his teeth, and threatening to break loose.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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