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English
Etymology
From Latin associātiō, from associō (perhaps via French association).
Morphologically associate + -ion
The Philippine sense is a calque of Spanish gremio.
Pronunciation
Noun
association (countable and uncountable, plural associations)
- (uncountable) The act of associating.
1970, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Politics, page I.2,1253a15-20: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.
- (countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s Continued”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 39:"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."
2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164: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?
- (statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- (object-oriented programming) Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
- (Philippines, Chinese Filipino) A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
- Synonym: kongsi (Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia)
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act of associating
- Catalan: associació (ca) f
- Esperanto: asociigo
- Finnish: liittyminen (fi), järjestäytyminen, yhdistyminen (fi), yhtyminen (fi); seurustelu (fi), yhdessäolo, seuranpito; liittoutuminen, ystävystyminen (fi), yhteen liittyminen; liittäminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi); assosiaatio (fi), mielleyhtymä (fi)
- Galician: asociación (gl) f
- German: Assoziation (de) f, Verknüpfung (de) f, Zuordnung (de) f, Vereinigung (de) f, Anschliessen n, Zusammenschliessen n
- Hungarian: társítás (hu), asszociáció (hu)
- Indonesian: asosiasi (id)
- Irish: comhthiomsú m (chemistry, physics)
- Japanese: 連想 (ja) (れんそう, rensō), 関連付け (かんれんづけ, kanrenzuke)
- Latin: consortium n
- Maori: whakapiringa, tūhononga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: assosiasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk: assosiasjon m
- Polish: współpraca (pl) f, skojarzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: associação (pt) f, associamento m
- Romanian: asociere (ro) f
- Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
- Spanish: asociación (es) f
- Swedish: association (sv) c, koppling (sv) c
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state of being associated; connection to or an affiliation with something
- Catalan: associació (ca) f
- Dutch: associatie (nl) f, verbinding (nl) f
- Finnish: jäsenyys (fi), järjestyneisyys, järjestäytyneisyys; yhdessäolo, seuranpito; toveruus (fi), kaveruus (fi), kumppanuus (fi), liittolaisuus (fi), ystävyys (fi); yhteys (fi), yhdistyneisyys; yhdistäminen (fi), assosiaatio (fi)
- German: Verbindung (de) f, Vereinigung (de) f, Verknüpfung (de) f, Wechselbeziehung (de) f, Korrelation (de) f, Assoziation (de) f, Konnotation (de) f
- Hungarian: társítás (hu), asszociáció (hu)
- Indonesian: asosiasi (id), hubungan (id), pertautan (id)
- Irish: comhchaidreamh m
- Maori: pāhonotanga, whakapiringa
- Polish: asocjacja (pl) f, skojarzenie (pl)
- Portuguese: associação (pt) f
- Romanian: asociere (ro) f, asociație (ro) f
- Russian: объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
- Sanskrit: बन्धु (sa) m (bandhu)
- Spanish: asociación (es) f
- Swedish: association (sv) c, koppling (sv) c
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group of persons associated for a common purpose
- Arabic: جَمْعِيَّة (ar) f (jamʕiyya)
- Armenian: ասոցիացիա (hy) (asocʿiacʿia)
- Belarusian: асацыя́цыя f (asacyjácyja), аб'ядна́нне n (abʺjadnánnje), тавары́ства n (tavarýstva)
- Bengali: আঞ্জুমান (bn) (anjuman)
- Bulgarian: асоциа́ция (bg) f (asociácija), дру́жество (bg) n (drúžestvo)
- Catalan: associació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 協會/协会 (zh) (xiéhuì)
- Czech: sdružení (cs) n, asociace (cs) f, spolek (cs) m
- Danish: forening c
- Dutch: vereniging (nl) f
- Esperanto: asociiĝo
- Finnish: järjestö (fi), yhdistys (fi)
- French: association (fr) f
- Georgian: ასოციაცია (asociacia)
- German: Verein (de) m, Verband (de) m, Assoziation (de) f, Vereinigung (de) f
- Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
- Hausa: ƙungiya (ha)
- Hindi: अंजुमन (hi) m (añjuman), संगठन (hi) m (saṅgṭhan)
- Hungarian: egyesület (hu), társulat (hu)
- Indonesian: persatuan (id)
- Irish: cumann m, compántas m
- Japanese: 協会 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai))
- Kapampangan: aguman
- Kazakh: қауымдастық (qauymdastyq), ассоциация (assosiasiä)
- Korean: 협회(協會) (ko) (hyeophoe)
- Kyrgyz: ассоциация (ky) (assotsiatsiya)
- Ladino: asosiasion
- Latin: consortium n, sodālitās f
- Macedonian: асоцијација f (asocijacija)
- Malay: persatuan (ms)
- Maltese: assoċjazzjoni f
- Manx: commyn m
- Maori: tōpūtanga
- Ngazidja Comorian: shama class 5/6
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forening (no) m or f, lag (no) n
- Nynorsk: foreining f
- Ottoman Turkish: جمعیت (cemʼiyet), انجمن (encümen)
- Persian: اَنْجُمَنْ (fa) (anjoman), باشْگاه (fa) (bâšgâh)
- Polish: związek (pl) m, stowarzyszenie (pl) n, towarzystwo (pl) n, asocjacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: associação (pt) f, organização (pt) f
- Romanian: asociație (ro) f
- Russian: ассоциа́ция (ru) f (associácija), объедине́ние (ru) n (obʺjedinénije), сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), соо́бщество (ru) n (soóbščestvo), това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̏друга f, асоција́ција f
- Roman: ȕdruga (sh) f, asocijácija (sh) f
- Slovak: združenie n, asociácia f, spolok m
- Slovene: združenje n
- Swedish: förening (sv) c, sammanslutning (sv) c, sällskap (sv) n, förbund (sv) n, klubb (sv) c, kår (sv) c
- Tagalog: kapisanan, asosasyon (tl)
- Tajik: ассотсиатсия (assotsiatsiya), бошгоҳ (bošgoh), ҷамъият (tg) (jamʾiyat)
- Ukrainian: асоціа́ція (uk) f (asociácija), об'є́днання (uk) n (obʺjédnannja), товари́ство (uk) n (tovarýstvo), спі́лка (uk) f (spílka)
- Urdu: اَنْجُمَنْ (ur) m (anjuman)
- Uyghur: جەمئىيىتى (jem'iyiti)
- Zazaki: cemiyet c
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Danish
Noun
association c (singular definite associationen, plural indefinite associationer)
- association
2007, Drømmenes dimensioner, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 83:Børn blokerer desuden ofte for associationer af angst for drømmeindholdet.- Furthermore, children often block associations of anxiety for the dream content.
2014, Klaus Kjøller, Sprogets Vej til Sindets Fred, 2. rev. vej, nu med Dit og Dat, KJOELLER.dk, →ISBN:I stedet for det dagligsproglige 'tilintetgørelse', som kan rumme negative associationer af ødelæggelse og brutalitet, benytter vi på Sprogets Vej det pluskorrigerede udtryk 'ophævelse'.- Instead of the everyday word "annihilation", which may contain negative associations of destruction and brutality, we use, on the Way of Language, the plus-corrected expression "cancellation".
2002, Anne Ring Petersen, Storbyens billeder: fra industrialisme til informationsalder, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 113:... vil de, skriver Allouay, fortrinsvis vække associationer af urban karakter.- ... they will, Allouay writes, predominantly arouse associations of an urban/urbane character.
1999, Bogens verden:... hvert sted åbner der sig en verden af formrigdom, af mulige associationer, af historier og sammenhænge, som kan foldes ud af det banale.- ... everywhere, a world of shape-wealth, of possible associations, of stories and connections that can be unfolded from banality opens.
- group of persons united for some purpose
Declension
Declension of association
Further reading
French
Etymology
From associer + -tion.
Pronunciation
Noun
association f (plural associations)
- association, society, group
- (commerce, economics) partnership
- association (of related terms, ideas etc.), combination
- (object-oriented programming) association
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Swedish
Noun
association c
- (uncountable, countable) association (connecting in one's mind)
- association (keeping company or (loose) contact with someone or something)
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