 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
affiliation
noun
1: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial
affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties
with other members of the team"; "many close
associations with England" [syn: {association}, {tie}, {tie-up}]
2: the act of becoming formally connected or joined; "welcomed
the affiliation of the research center with the
university"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affiliation \Af*fil'i*a"tion\, noun [F. affiliation, LL.
affiliatio.]
1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of
the same family or society.
2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the
assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father;
filiation.
3. Connection in the way of descent. --H. Spencer.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
216 Moby Thesaurus words for "affiliation":
Americanization, Anschluss, acceptance, accord, acculturation,
addition, adjunct, admission, adoption, affairs, affinity,
agglomeration, aggregation, agnation, agreement, alignment,
alliance, amalgamation, ancestry, apparentation, approximation,
assemblage, assimilation, association, birth, blend, blending,
blood, blood relationship, bloodline, body, bond, branch, breed,
brotherhood, brothership, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization,
church, citizenship by naturalization, citizenship papers,
closeness, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, cognation,
colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, combination, combine,
combo, common ancestry, common descent, communion, community,
companionship, company, composition, comradeship, confederacy,
confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration,
conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, consanguinity,
consociation, consolidation, conspiracy, contiguity, contrariety,
cooperation, copartnership, copartnery, cousinhood, cousinship,
culture shock, dealings, deduction, denomination, derivation,
descent, direct line, disjunction, distaff side, division,
ecumenism, embodiment, embracement, enation, encompassment, enosis,
espousal, extraction, faction, family, fatherhood, federalization,
federation, fellowship, female line, filiation, fraternalism,
fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusion, group, homology,
hookup, house, inclusion, incorporation, integration, intercourse,
intimacy, junction, junta, kindred, kinship, league, liaison, line,
line of descent, lineage, link, linkage, linking, male line,
marriage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny,
meld, melding, membership, merger, motherhood, mutual attraction,
nationalization, naturalization, naturalized citizenship, nearness,
offshoot, order, organization, package, package deal, papers,
partaking, participation, partnership, party, paternity,
patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, persuasion, phylum,
propinquity, proximity, race, rapport, relatedness, relation,
relations, relationship, religious order, schism, school, sect,
sectarism, seed, segment, sept, sharing, sibship, side, similarity,
sisterhood, sistership, society, sodality, solidification,
sorority, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain,
succession, sword side, sympathy, syncretism, syndication,
syneresis, synthesis, tie, tie-in, tie-up, ties of blood,
unification, union, variety, version, wedding
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