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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
affiliated \affiliated\ adjective
1. 1 being joined in close association affiliated clubs
Syn: attached, connected [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affiliate \Af*fil"i*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Affiliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affiliating}.] [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? --I. 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? --H. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
affiliated
adjective: being joined in close association; "affiliated clubs"; "all art schools whether independent or attached to universities" [syn: {attached}, {connected}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "affiliated": affiliate, agnate, akin, allied, associate, associated, attached, avuncular, bound, bracketed, cabalistic, closely related, cognate, collateral, combined, confederate, confederated, congeneric, conjugate, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conspiratorial, corporate, correlated, coupled, distantly related, enate, enleagued, federate, federated, foster, german, germane, implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, incident, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, involved, joined, kindred, knotted, leagued, linked, married, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, novercal, of that ilk, of that kind, of the blood, paired, parallel, partners with, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, related, sib, sibling, spliced, teamed, tied, twinned, united, uterine, wed, wedded, yoked
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