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Associate

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Similar meaning 2

Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Subordinate 84% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Accompaniment 76% connected

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of…

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Attendant 76% connected

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Compeer 76% connected

An equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.

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Concomitant 76% connected

Accompanying; conjoined; attending.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Equal 76% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Friend 76% connected

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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Interact 76% connected

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Peer 76% connected

To come in sight; to appear.

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Subordinate 76% connected

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.

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Subsidiary 76% connected

Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Underling 76% connected

An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; hence, a mean, sorry fellow.

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Unify 76% connected

To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

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Unite 76% connected

To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Manner of action 11

Accompany 76% connected

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…

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Ally 76% connected

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often fo…

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Companion 76% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Company 76% connected

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Correlate 76% connected

To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

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Date 76% connected

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

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Identify 76% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

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Mean 76% connected

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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Remember 76% connected

To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind ag…

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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Adjunct 76% connected

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

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Affiliate 76% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Ally 76% connected

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often fo…

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An 76% connected

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies…

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Bedfellow 76% connected

One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

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Collaborator 76% connected

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

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Colleague 76% connected

A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures.

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Confrere 76% connected

Fellow member of a fraternity; intimate associate.

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Cooperator 76% connected

One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end.

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Date 76% connected

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

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Escort 76% connected

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant;…

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Fellow 76% connected

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

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Friend 76% connected

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Member 76% connected

To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.

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Participant 76% connected

Sharing; participating; having a share of part.

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Partner 76% connected

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b)…

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Player 76% connected

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.

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Playfellow 76% connected

A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate.

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Playmate 76% connected

A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

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Roommate 76% connected

One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

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Roomy 76% connected

Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.

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Shipmate 76% connected

One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.

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Workfellow 76% connected

One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

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Derivationally related 12

Associable 74% connected

Capable of being associated or joined.

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Associable 74% connected

Capable of being associated or joined.

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Association 74% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Association 74% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Associative 74% connected

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.

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Associative 74% connected

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.

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Companion 74% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Companion 74% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Consociate 74% connected

An associate; an accomplice.

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Consociate 74% connected

An associate; an accomplice.

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Fellowship 74% connected

The state or relation of being or associate.

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Fellowship 74% connected

The state or relation of being or associate.

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Association 70% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Synonym 12

Affiliate 92% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Assort 92% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Colligate 92% connected

To tie or bind together.

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Companion 92% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Comrade 92% connected

A mate, companion, or associate.

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Connect 92% connected

To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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Consociate 92% connected

An associate; an accomplice.

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Consort 92% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Familiar 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

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Fellow 92% connected

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

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Link 92% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Relate 92% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Antonym 2

Dissociate 94% connected

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

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Dissociate 94% connected

To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.

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