association
//əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩//
Forms
- Plural
- associations
Definitions
1.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.
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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1031
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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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