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. college fraternities and sororities are listed at the dedicated list of social fraternities and sororities. ==international== * ancient mystical order rosae crucis * ancient order of hibernians * b'nai brith * civitan * concatenated order of hoo-hoo * e clampus vitus * epsilon sigma alpha international * fraternal forestry ** independent order of foresters ** foresters friendly society ** ancient order of united workmen * fraternal order of eagles * fraternal order of moai * freemasonry ** demolay international ** order of the eastern star ** scottish rite ** shriners ** york rite * grand united order of odd fellows * gyro international * illuminati * imperial court system * international order of alhambra * international organisation of good templars * independent order of odd fellows * international order of twelve knights and daughters of tabor * junior chamber international (jaycees or junior chamber of commerce) ** united states junior chamber * knights of columbus ** columbian squires * knights of pythias * moose international * optimist international * orange order * ordo templi orientis * rosicrucian fellowship * round table club * royal antediluvian order of buffaloes * ruritan * samaritans (charity) * sertoma international * soroptimist * woodmen of the world * zonta international ==australia== * apex * knights of the southern cross * united grand lodge of new south wales and the australian capital territory fraternities or lodges were an important part of australian society in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. they were gradually replaced by "service clubs", such as lions, apex, rotary, etc. by the end of the 20th century, all the fraternities had been wound up except for the freemasons and a few lodges of the buffaloes. the reasons for their decline probably have something to do with generational change and bemusement at the secretive rites that all fraternities had, as the service clubs that succeeded them did fairly similar charitable work. no general history has been written, but some of the many lodges that operated in the state of victoria were: * royal antediluvian order of buffaloes * druids * foresters * freemasons * odd fellows (independent order of oddfellows or ioof) of course in those sectarian times there had to be two d
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