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Definition of Fraternise
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 Fraternise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of fraternize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraternise
Literary usage of Fraternise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parks: Their Design, Equipment and Use by George Burnap (1916)
"... Play and display will not fraternise. Not a shrub or flower could survive in
this park until a portion of it was converted into a playground. ..."
2. Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville by Henry William Greville (1883)
"to fraternise with the Italians. It is curious that Lord Hardinge, who arrived
here on Thursday, passed two hours at Vienna and saw Metternich, ..."
3. Memoirs of C. M. Talleyrand de Périgord ...: Containing the Particulars of by Stewarton (1805)
"The first French grenadier ambassador was a real grenadier, seat to fraternise
with self to the passions, and not to the reason, of those men, ..."
4. The English at Home by Alphonse Esquiros (1861)
"EPISODE OF A GIPSY SOLDIER IN SPAIN—THE INTEREST OF HUMANITY THAT ALL NATIONS
SHOULD fraternise. A POPULATION living on the toil of others is certainly a ..."