Affiliate
Pronunciation
Noun:- UKUS IPA: /əˈfɪl.i.et/
- UKUS IPA: /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
Origin
From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare ("to adopt as son"); ad + filius ("son"): compare French affilier.
Full definition of affiliate
Noun
affiliate
(plural affiliates)- Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
Verb
- (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
- I. TaylorIs the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- (transitive) To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
- H. SpencerHow do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
- (intransitive) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with.