fraternize
to associate socially or romantically with people considered inappropriate company, often due to a difference in status, as between managers and subordinates, or professors and students: Doctors fraternizing with interns is nothing new, but hospital management is considering stricter policies to discourage it.
to associate cordially or intimately with the people of a conquered country, enemy troops, etc., especially in violation of orders or rules: Of the charges these officers are facing, the most serious is fraternizing with the enemy.
to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
Archaic. to bring into fraternal association or sympathy.
Origin of fraternize
1- Also especially British, frat·er·nise .
Other words for fraternize
Other words from fraternize
- frat·er·ni·za·tion [frat-er-nahy-zey-shuhn], /ˌfræt ərˌnaɪˈzeɪ ʃən/, noun
- frat·er·niz·er, noun
- un·frat·er·nized, adjective
- un·frat·er·niz·ing, adjective
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How to use fraternize in a sentence
The doctor departed from the ceremony, fraternising with Campbell, and kept his bed for eight-and-forty hours.
Devil-Worship in France | Arthur Edward WaiteCatch me fraternising again with any of them; a disreputable set of scoundrels with never a shirt to their back.
Tales from Blackwood | VariousThe two bodies, however, work side by side without antagonism, but it may be said also without much fraternising.
The Church Index | William PepperellThey looked upon each other as brothers, and the outposts of both armies were fraternising.
A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) | Thomas M. LindsayThe chairman by seniority, Beslay, a capitalist of a fraternising turn of mind, made the opening speech.
History of the Commune of 1871 | P. Lissagary
British Dictionary definitions for fraternize
fraternise
/ (ˈfrætəˌnaɪz) /
(intr often foll by with) to associate on friendly terms
Derived forms of fraternize
- fraternization or fraternisation, noun
- fraternizer or fraterniser, noun
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