fraternize
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ərˌnaɪz
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| —vb (often foll by with) | |
| to associate on friendly terms | |
| fraternise or fraternise | |
| —vb | |
| fraterni'zation or fraternise | |
| —n | |
| fraterni'sation or fraternise | |
| —n | |
| 'fraternizer or fraternise | |
| —n | |
| 'fraterniser or fraternise | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
fraternize
1610s, "to sympathize as brothers," from Fr. fraterniser, from M.L. fraternizare, from fraternus "brotherly" (see fraternity). Military sense of "cultivate friendship with enemy troops" is from 1897 (used in World War I with reference to the Christmas Truce). Used oddly
by World War II armed forces to mean "have sex with women from enemy countries." Related: Fraternizing.
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Example sentences
Social networks and other online meeting places provide a unique way for individuals to meet and fraternize.
Our soldiers were no sooner inside the lines than the two armies began to fraternize.
And even now rival baseball players aren't supposed to fraternize behind a batting cage.
Those arrested are believed to either belong to the group or to fraternize with members.
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