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Associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way
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fraternization
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fraternization (from Latin frater , brother) is "turning people into brothers"—conducting social relations with people who are actually unrelated and/or of a different class (especially those with whom one works) as though they were siblings , family members, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, "act of uniting as brothers," noun of action from fraternize on model of French fraternisation . In reference to friendly relations between occupying soldiers and occupied civilians, from 1851; in reference to intimate relations as a violation of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy [syn: fraternisation ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. 2 Having a friendly relationship with the enemy. 3 (context chiefly US pejorative English) any type of disallowed, supposedly unethical and unprofessional, social or intimate contact between employees, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fraternization \Fra`ter*ni*za"tion\ (? or ?), n. The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. --Burke.
Usage examples of fraternization.
Like some editors and television producers, some scientists believe the public is too ignorant or too stupid to understand science, that the enterprise of popularization is fundamentally a lost cause, or even that it's tantamount to fraternization, if not outright cohabitation, with the enemy.
A Malwa officer, had there been one present to notice, would have been outraged at the free and easy fraternization between captives and captors.
That would be a pleasure, because there was very little fraternization across the ranks when the legion was in the field — and they had been in the field an unexpected three months already, with victory more distant every day that brought no beneficial change .
The penalty for any sort of sexual fraternization between a slave and a woman was the loss of the ability to make use of those urges.