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affiliation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

affiliationn. [F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio.].
  •  Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Connection in the way of descent.  H. Spencer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

affiliation, n. the act or process of affiliating or being affiliated.

Idiom
affiliation order Brit. a legal order that the man judged to be the father of an illegitimate child must help to support it.
Etymology
F f. med.L affiliatio f. affiliare: see AFFILIATE

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

affiliation

Consanguinity

N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.

Attribution

N attribution, theory, etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale, accounting for, palaetiology, imputation, derivation from, filiation, affiliation, pedigree, explanation, reason why, attributed, attributable, referable to, referrible to, due to, derivable from, owing to, putative, ecbatic, hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because, owing to, on that account, from this cause, from that cause, thanks to, forasmuch as, whence, propter hoc, why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how does it happen? in some way, in some such way, somehow, somehow or other, that is why, hinc illae lachrymae.


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