English Explanatory Dictionary

association

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of associating.
  2. The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
  3. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
  4. A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
  5. Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
  6. A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.

Pronunciation

/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/ /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/ /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/ /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/ En-us-association.ogg

Word forms

association associations

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós Proto-Italic *sokjos Latin sokios Latin socius Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin sociō Latin associō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin associātiōbor. English association From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion. The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.

Synonyms

connection ass'n kongsi

Related words

associate associational alliance clan coalition guild league union

Derived words

AADAOPA alumni association amateur press association anociassociation antiassociation articles of association association copy association fallacy association football associationism associationist association link association list association of ideas association time autoassociation bar association bioassociation bisociation CHARGE association coassociation damn by association disassociation employers' association file association free association free clothes association freedom of association guarantee association guilt by association heteroassociation homeowner association homeowner's association homeowners' association ichnoassociation interassociation klang association magnetoassociation memorandum of association misassociation mis-association monoassociation nonassociation parent-teacher association parent-teacher-student association photoassociation phytoassociation preassociation prosecution association reassociation riding association robust association of massive baryonic objects savings and loan association subassociation trade association trisociation word association

Translations

Finnish: suhde Finnish: assosiaatio French: association
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