Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To associate with others in a brotherly or congenial way.
- v. To associate on friendly terms with an enemy or opposing group, often in violation of discipline or orders.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To associate, sympathize, or hold fellowship as brothers; hold brotherly intercourse; have sympathetic relations.
- To bring into fraternal association or into sympathy.
- Also spelled fraternise.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner;
- v. intransitive To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
- v. To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy
Etymologies
- From Latin, literally "to make brothers" (Wiktionary)
- French fraterniser, from Medieval Latin frāternizāre, from Latin frāternus, fraternal; see fraternal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Castro recommended to the 270 Cuban athletes that they "fraternize" with other athletes competing in the Ninth Central American and Caribbean Games”
“In the mad excitement, the reckless triumph of that moment, I was ready to "fraternize" with anybody who encouraged me in my game.”
“fraternize" with anybody who encouraged me in my game.”
“We were told not to fraternize, to disclose nothing, to consider everything above top secret.”
“Illustration by Jason Schneider Rule 3.09 Rule 3.09: No Fraternizing "Players of opposing teams shall not fraternize at any time while in uniform.”
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“Because everybody knows the roman empire fell after they started letting their soldiers fraternize.”
“Some became withdrawn, refusing to fraternize with fellow team members in their off-duty time.”
“Peter of Detectives Beyond Bordersblog has just been at a book convention where he met someone whoopined that "fans" "pass the evenings in their rooms among their newly acquired books, missing the chance to fraternize at the hotel bar with the people who wrote those books.”
“They say that Cuba is a place where time stands still and it certainly seemed that way last week when Jimmy Carter arrived in Havana to fraternize with the Castros.”
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“Greenville was the home of Bob Jones University, which Africans could attend if they didn't fraternize with white women while African Americans could not.”
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