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
But on the frontier of Buenos Aires this army joined the popular movement, and fraternised with the barbaric hordes of Artigas.
Ponce de Leon | William PillingI sat closeted in my room with two friends, Frémy and Edwards, whom I introduced and who quickly fraternised.
The Sign of Silence | William Le QueuxThey grew up quite as tame as our own dogs, with whom they fraternised as if they had been of the same species.
The Desert Home | Mayne ReidOur paddlers indeed fraternised with the enemy, against whom they would have been fighting if they had not been employed by us.
A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State | Marcus DormanBlack looks and savage growls fraternised in the cause against the common enemy.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
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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