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English

Etymology

From , from (perhaps via ).

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. The act of associating.
  2. The state of being associated.
  3. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  4. A connection to or an affiliation with something.


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Translations

  • Hebrew: (1,2)
  • Ido: asociuro
  • Irish: {{t-|ga|cumann|m|xs=Irish}}
  • Japanese: 協会 (kyōkai)
  • Russian: {{t|ru|ассоциация|f|tr=associácija|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Spanish: {{t-|es|asociación|f}}

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French

Etymology

From .

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Fr-association.ogg
  • IPA: lang=fr,


Noun

  1. association#English|association, society, group
  2. In the Context of partnership
  3. #English|association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Association \As*so`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. association,
LL. associatio, fr. L. associare.]
1. The act of associating, or state of being associated;
union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . .
. bond of association." --Hooker.
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Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God.
--Boyle.
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2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or
associated with a thing.
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Words . . . must owe their powers association.
--Johnson.
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Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their
venerable associations, be profaned? --Coleridge.
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3. Union of persons in a company or society for some
particular purpose; as, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a benevolent association.
Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society,
consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors
of neighboring churches, united for promoting the
interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
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Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or
connection of states of mind or their objects with one
another, as the result of which one is said to be revived
or represented by means of the other. The relations
according to which they are thus connected or revived are
called the law of association. Prominent among them are
reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and
effect. --Porter.
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WordNet association
n 1: a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he
joined the Modern Language Association"
2: the act of consorting with or joining with others; "you
cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association"
3: the state of being connected together as in memory or
imagination; "his association of his father with being
beaten was too strong to break" [ant: disassociation]
4: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial
affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with
other members of the team"; "many close associations with
England" [syn: affiliation, tie, tie-up]
5: the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory
or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by
association" [syn: connection, connexion]
6: a relation resulting from interaction or dependence; "flints
were found in association with the prehistoric remains of
the bear"; "the host is not always injured by association
with a parasite"
7: (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in
solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
8: (ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that
live together in a certain geographical region and
constitute a community with a few dominant species
Moby Dictionary
Anschluss , British Cabinet , Sanhedrin , US Cabinet , accompaniment ,
accord , accordance , addition , adjunct , advisory body , affairs ,
affiliation , affinity , agglomeration , aggregation , agreement ,
alignment , alliance , amalgamation , approximation , assemblage ,
assembly , assimilation , association by contiguity ,
association of ideas , bench , blend , blending , board ,
body of advisers , bond , bonding , borough council , brain trust ,
cabal , cabinet , cahoots , camaraderie , camarilla , cartel ,
centralization , chain of thought , chamber , city council ,
clang association , closeness , co-working , coaction , coadunation ,
coalescence , coalition , cochairmanship , coincidence , collaboration ,
colleagueship , collectivity , collegialism , collegiality , collusion ,
combination , combine , combined effort , combo , common council ,
community , companionship , company , complicity , composition ,
comradeship , concert , concerted action , concomitance , concordance ,
concourse , concurrence , condominium , confederacy , confederation ,
conference , confluence , confraternity , congeries , conglomeration ,
congress , conjugation , conjunction , connectedness , connection ,
consilience , consociation , consolidation , consortium , consortship ,
conspiracy , consultative assembly , contiguity , contrariety ,
contribution , controlled association , cooperation , cooperative ,
copartnership , copartnery , correspondence , cotenancy , council ,
council fire , council of ministers , council of state ,
council of war , county council , court , current of thought ,
dealings , deduction , deliberative assembly , diet , directory ,
disjunction , divan , ecumenism , embodiment , encompassment ,
engagement , enosis , federalization , federation , fellowship ,
filiation , flow of thought , fraternalism , fraternity ,
fraternization , free association , freemasonry , friendship , fusion ,
group , guild , having a part , homology , hookup , identification ,
inclusion , incorporation , inmost thoughts , integration ,
intercourse , intimacy , involvement , joining , joint chairmanship ,
joint control , joint ownership , joint tenancy , junction , junta ,
kitchen cabinet , league , legislature , liaison , link , linkage ,
linking , marriage , meld , melding , membership , mental linking ,
merger , mutual attraction , nearness , negative transference ,
organization , package , package deal , pairing , parasitism ,
parish council , partaking , participation , partnership ,
positive transference , privy council , propinquity , proximity ,
rapport , relatedness , relation , relations , relationship ,
saprophytism , secret thoughts , sharing , similarity , simultaneity ,
social circle , social class , society , sodality , solidification ,
sorority , soviet , staff , stream of consciousness , suffrage ,
symbiosis , sympathy , synchronism , syncretism , syndicate ,
syndication , syneresis , synergy , synesthesia , synod , synthesis ,
thoughts , tie , tie-in , tie-up , train of thought , transference ,
tribunal , unification , union , united action , voting , wedding


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