Definition of association

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Association (n.) Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches..

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Guild :: Guild (v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority..
Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons..
Intimacy :: Intimacy (n.) The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
Carbonaro :: Carbonaro (n.) A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic..
Assemblage :: Assemblage (n.) The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association..
Blend :: Blend (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
Whiteboy :: Whiteboy (a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids..
Associability :: Associability (n.) The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness..
Aggregate :: Aggregate (v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association..
Society :: Society (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society..
Associationist :: Associationist (n.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill..
International :: International (n.) The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations..
Crispin :: Crispin (n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Member :: Member (n.) One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends..
Panhellenium :: Panhellenium (n.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.
Contiguity :: Contiguity (n.) The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
Expulsion :: Expulsion (n.) The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc..
Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
Phalanstery :: Phalanstery (n.) An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
University :: University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..
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