A person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor.

Roget 711: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante^†, coaid^†; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix^†; collaborator.    ally; friend etc. 890, confidant, fidus Achates [Lat.], pal, buddy, alter ego.    [criminal law] confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the fact; particeps criminis [Lat.]; socius criminis [Lat.].    aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant etc. 746; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal^†.    tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee [Fr.]; satellite, adherent.    votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor, advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel (theater, entertainment). friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina [Lat.], guardian angel, tutelary genius.    ... show more

Dutch: partner, lid, compagnon, medewerker

A friend who is frequently in the company of another.

synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow.

Roget 88: accompaniment; adjunct etc. 39; context; appendage, appurtenance.    coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency^†.    concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.    ... show more

Roget 890: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus [Lat.]; usque ad aras [Lat.]; fidus Achates [Lat.]; persona grata.    acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.    favorer, fautor^†, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need etc. (auxiliary) 711.    comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade^†, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.    associate, colleague, compeer.    schoolmate, schoolfellow^†; classfellow^†, classman^†, classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.    best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.    compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman.    shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate^†; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner.    Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux^†, Nisus and Euryalus [Lat.], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum [Lat.].    host, Amphitryon^†, Boniface; guest, visitor, prot_eg_e.    ... show more

Dutch: gezelschapsdame, kameraad
Polish: kompanion, kompan

A person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise.

Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another.

Dutch: verenigen, associëren

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.

synonym: associate degree.

Make a logical or causal connection.

synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in.

Roget 72: assemble [be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.    [get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate^†; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate^†; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate^†; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup^†, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate etc. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.    ... show more

Roget 43: join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece together [Fr.], tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody, reembody^†; roll into one.    attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast etc. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter etc. (restrain) 751; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple^†, link, yoke, bracket; marry etc. (wed) 903; bridge over, span.    braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^†; graft, ingraft^†, inosculate^†; entwine, intwine^†; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^†, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.    be joined &c.; hang together, hold together; cohere etc. 46.    ... show more

Roget 9: be related etc. adj.; have a relation etc. n.; relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.    bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw a parallel; link etc. 43.    ... show more

Roget 712: unite, join; club together etc. (cooperate) 709; cement a party, form a party etc. n.; associate etc. (assemble) 72; enleague^†, federalize, go cahoots.    ... show more

Dutch: combineren, relateren

Keep company with; hang out with:
— He associates with strange people.

synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort.

Bring or come into association or action.

synonym: consociate.

Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status.