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/əsˌoʊsiˈeɪʃən/ /əsˌoʊʃiˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Association n.

1.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some... bond of association." "Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God."

2.

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. "Words... must owe their powers association." "Why should... the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned?"

3.

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Association" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I never approved of the silver being sent away," the doctor began at once, as a preliminary to the narrative of his night's adventures in association with Captain Mitchell, the engineer-in-chief, and old Viola, at Sotillo's headquarters. To the doctor, with his special conception of this political crisis, the removal of the silver had seemed an irrational and ill-omened measure. It was as if a general were sending the ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

... of trouble?" asked the girl. "If you mean that your so-called business association with my father will cease, I shall be happier. My father can earn his living and I have ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... time some of her friends—such as Ripley, Curtis, and Cranch—had joined a small agricultural and educational association, called the "Brook Farm," near Roxbury, Massachusetts. She visited them once or twice, and saw Mr. Curtis engaged in washing dishes which had been used by "The Community." She remarked to him that perhaps he could be better employed for the progress ...

— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn

... From long association in military and private life a warm personal friendship had existed between General Scott and General Robert E. Lee. At the outbreak of the war the latter, then a colonel in the army, was at his residence, Arlington, near Washington, ...

— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... Fortune. And in time a son was born to him and named Treasure. Then when the father went to heaven, the young man became very unruly because of gambling and other vices. And the rascals came together, and ruined him. Association with scoundrels is the root from which springs ...

— Twenty-two Goblins • Unknown

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