Synonyms for associations


Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-soh-see-ey-shuhn, -shee-
Phonetic Transcription : əˌsoʊ siˈeɪ ʃən, -ʃi-

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Définition of associations

Origin :
  • 1530s, "action of coming together," from Medieval Latin associationem (nominative associatio), noun of action from past participle stem of associare (see associate). Meaning "a body of persons with a common purpose" is from 1650s. Meaning "mental connection" is from 1680s; that of "quality or thing called to mind by something else" is from 1810.
  • noun group with common interest or pursuit
  • noun friendship
  • noun mental connection
Example sentences :
  • From this place the atmosphere and associations of the prison are excluded.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • But I perceive that your associations are by no means lacking in push and enterprise: how is this?
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • To be just, it should be added that the same game is repeated in the associations.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • The formation of the associations was effected without the slightest delay.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • As a rule, however, the associations will not hear of even such a reduction.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Every stone in this part of the city has its associations, its traditions, its history.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
  • There are associations of sound and of sense by which every word is linked to every other.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • The foreign mission field—what associations had she with that?
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • The work "fascinated" him, and it was because of these associations that it did so.
  • Extract from : « Hampstead and Marylebone » by Geraldine Edith Mitton
  • These associations thirty years ago were little more than social.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

Antonyms for associations

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