association
/əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.01 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname, geographical origin, location, trade or business.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "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?"
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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō 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.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˌsoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/
- British English: /əˌsəʊʃiˈeɪʃn̩/