sociate

English

Etymology

From Latin sociatus.

Pronunciation
  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊsieɪt/, /ˈsəʊʃieɪt/
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  • (noun, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈsəʊsiət/, /ˈsəʊʃiət/
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Verb

sociate (third-person singular simple present sociates, present participle sociating, simple past and past participle sociated)

  1. (obsolete) To associate.
    • c. 1862-1867, Leonard Shelford, The Law of Joint Stock Companies
      […] grant to any sociated for company or body of persons associated together […]

Noun

sociate (plural sociates)

  1. (obsolete) An associate.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:
      As for you, Dr. Reynolds, and your sociates.

Adjective

sociate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) associated

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sociate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

sociāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of sociō
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