Affiliate

Noun

 * 1) 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

 * 1)  To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
 * 2)  To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
 * 3)  To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
 * 4)  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.

Synonyms for Affiliate
join, merge, combine, associate, connect, ally.

Antonyms for Affiliate
separate, disjoin, divide.

Derived terms

 * affiliate with
 * affiliate to
 * affiliation

Thesaurus
Americanize; Anglicize; Greek; accept; acculturate; acculturize; act in concert; act together; admit; adopt; affiliate to; affiliate with; affiliated; allied; ally; amalgamate; approve; arm; assimilate; associate; associated; band; band together; be in cahoots; be in league; belonger; bound; bracketed; branch; branch office; brother; bunch; bunch up; cabal; cabalistic; card-carrier; card-carrying member; cardholder; carry; cement a union; centralize; chapter; charter member; club; club together; clubber; clubman; clubwoman; coact; coalesce; collaborate; collateral; collude; combine; come into; come together; committeeman; comrade; concert; concord; concur; confederate; confederated; confer citizenship; conjugate; connected; consociate; consolidate; conspiratorial; conspire; conventioneer; conventioner; conventionist; cooperate; corporate; correlated; couple; coupled; creep in; derive from; division; do business with; dues-paying member; embrace; enleagued; enlist; enlistee; enroll; enrollee; enter; espouse; father; federalize; federate; federated; fellow; filiate to; fraternity man; fuse; gang; gang up; get heads together; get into; get together; go in for; go in partners; go in partnership; go into; go native; go partners; guildsman; hang together; harmonize; hold together; honorary member; hook up; hook up with; implicated; in cahoots; in league; in partnership; in with; initiate; insider; interlinked; interlocked; interrelated; involved; join; join forces; join fortunes with; join in; join together; join up; join up with; join with; joined; joiner; keep together; knotted; league; league together; league with; leagued; life member; linked; local; lodge; make common cause; married; marry; member; merge; naturalize; of that ilk; of that kind; offshoot; one of us; organ; organize; pair; pair off; paired; parallel; partner; partners with; pass; play ball; pledge; post; pull together; put heads together; ratify; reciprocate; related; sign on; sign up; sister; sneak in; socius; sorority girl; sorority woman; spliced; stand together; stand up with; take out membership; take up; take up membership; team up; team up with; team with; teamed; throw in together; throw in with; tie in; tie in with; tie up; tie up with; tied; trace to; twinned; unionize; unite; unite efforts; unite with; wed; wedded; wing; work together; yoked

Etymology
undefined:; ad + filius:: compare French affilier.

Pronunciation
Noun: Verb