association

CEFRC1

/əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A connection between people, ideas, or things.

  2. 02

    noun

    An organized group formed for a shared purpose.

Examples

  • The association has excluded amateurs ever since its foundation.

  • The association is still a far cry from being well organized.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /əˌsəʊsiˈeɪʃn̩/
  • /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).

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

  3. The act of associating.

More examples

In context

  • Who is eligible to apply for membership of the association?

  • 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.

  • "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."

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association). Morphologically associate + -ion. The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.