Affiliate

Quick meaning: Affiliate is a noun meaning (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring.

Meaning

(transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
2. (transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of
3. (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
4. Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
5. (intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Example Sentences

Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?

to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?

Word Forms

• affiliates
• affiliating
• affiliated

Synonyms for affiliate

Depending on context, synonyms include assort, associate, consort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include assort, associate, consort, subscribe, join, internship.

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