association
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
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.
Base: associate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: associations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of associating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
gloss: The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "Well," exclaimed Lady Marchmont, breathing the perfume with which a honeysuckle, wound around an old ash, filled the air, "I do confess that I like common flowers better than any. The hothouse plant has no associations."
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
gloss: Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: connection
ass'n
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:
lang: Finnish
word: suhde
lang: Finnish
word: assosiaatio
lang: French
word: association