association

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of consorting with or joining with others

   you cannot be convicted of criminal guilt by association

2. 2
   noun

   the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

   conditioning is a form of learning by association

3. 3
   noun

   a relation resulting from interaction or dependence

   flints were found in association with the prehistoric remains of the bear

4. 4
   noun

   the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination

   Their association of their parent and being beaten was too strong to break.

5. 5
   noun

   The act of associating.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

   "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."

7. 7
   noun

   (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

8. 8
   noun

   a formal organization of people or groups of people

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 *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin associātiōbor. English…