1. [adjective] Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
2. [adjective] Having partial status or privileges.
3. [adjective] Following or accompanying; concomitant.
4. [adjective] (biology) (dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
5. [noun] A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
6. [noun] A companion; a comrade.
7. [noun] One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
8. [noun] A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
9. [verb] (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
10. [verb] (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
11. [verb] (transitive) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
12. [verb] (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
13. [verb] (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
14. [verb] (reflexive) (in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
15. [verb] (mathematics) To be associative.
16. [verb] (transitive) (obsolete) To accompany; to keep company with.
17. [noun] (slang) An associate's degree.
18. [noun] A person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor; 'he had to consult his associate before continuing'.
19. [noun] A friend who is frequently in the company of another; 'drinking companions'; 'comrades in arms'.
20. [noun] A person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise; 'associates in the law firm bill at a lower rate than do partners'.
21. [noun] Any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; 'first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate'.
22. [noun] A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.
23. [verb] Make a logical or causal connection; 'I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind'; 'colligate these facts'; 'I cannot relate these events at all'.
24. [verb] Keep company with; hang out with; 'He associates with strange people'; 'She affiliates with her colleagues'.
25. [verb] Bring or come into association or action; 'The churches consociated to fight their dissolution'.
26. [adjective] Having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status; 'an associate member'; 'an associate professor'.
