affiliate
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)affiliates
- a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organizationType of associate
- a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization“network affiliates”Type of organization, organisation
Verb (2)affiliates, affiliated, affiliating
- keep company with; hang out with“He associates with strange people”“She affiliates with her colleagues”Synonyms: consortassociateassortMore general interactMore specific company, go steady, ally
- join in an affiliation“The two colleges affiliated”“They affiliated with a national group”More general join, fall in
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Verb to attach or unite
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier.
1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?— Isaac Taylor
2. To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?— Herbert Spencer
4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with.
Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.
To connect or associate one's self; — followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54