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Definition of Fraternize
1. Verb. Be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy.
Generic synonyms: Socialise, Socialize
Derivative terms: Fraternisation, Fraternity, Fraternity, Fraternization
Definition of Fraternize
1. v. i. To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
2. v. t. To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Definition of Fraternize
1. Verb. (intransitive) To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner; ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fraternize
1. [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraternize
Literary usage of Fraternize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... Rebellious Subjects—Decrease of Population and Wealth—A Good Time at Victoria—John
Bull and Brother Jonathan fraternize Over Food and Drink—The San Juan ..."
2. Vagabonding Through Changing Germany by Harry Alverson Franck (1920)
"fraternize '"FHE armies of occupation have been credited with the *• discovery
of a new crime, one not even implied in the Ten Commandments. ..."
3. Fantazius Mallare, a Mysterious Oathby Ben Hecht by Ben Hecht (1922)
"them, but not I}; to the ostracizing ones who hurl excommunications upon all that
is not part of their stupidity; to the ostracizing ones who fraternize ..."
4. The History of the Great Riots: Being a Full and Authentic Account of the by James Dabney McCabe (1877)
"... Regiment—The Soldiers fraternize with the Rioters—Danger of a Conii ¡et Between
the Troops —The Military Sent Away from Reading—Arrival of the ..."
5. Impressions of China: And the Present Revolution: Its Progress and Prospects by Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne (1855)
"_ Meanwhile the news soon spread amongst the Insurgents that we were brethren,
and numbers came immediately to fraternize. They appeared much pleased at our ..."
6. Labor, Land and Law: A Search for the Missing Wealth of the Working Poor by William Addison Phillips (1886)
"... title than possession—Conquest on pretense of Christianizing—Native rights
disregarded—French and Spanish colonies fraternize with the natives—English ..."
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