Definition of Association - BrainyQuote Mobile

Home | Search | Topics | Favorites
Quote of the Day

Definition of Association

Association

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

Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.

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.

Related Definitions:

Act, Advancement, American, Among, And, As, Associated, Associating, Association, Being, Benevolent, Company, Connection, Consisting, For, Generally, Harmony, In, Is, Linked, Mental, Mentally, Neighboring, Number, Of, Or, Particular, Promoting, Purpose, Religion, Science, Society, Some, Specifically, State, That, The, Thing, Union, United, Whether, Which, With

Association Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

Association Translations

association in Afrikaans is vereniging
association in Dutch is bond, genootschap, associatie
association in French is association
association in German is Vereinigung, Vorstellung
association in Italian is fasciatura
association in Latin is congressus
association in Norwegian is forening

BrainyQuote Mobile
BrainyQuote Standard