FRATERNISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fraternise mean? 

• FRATERNISE (verb)
  The verb FRATERNISE has 1 sense:

1. be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy

  Familiarity information: FRATERNISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRATERNISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fraternise    ... he / she / it fraternises   
Past simple: fraternised   
Past participle: fraternised   
-ing form: fraternising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

fraternise; fraternize

Hypernyms (to "fraternise" is one way to...):

socialise; socialize (take part in social activities; interact with others)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

fraternisation (associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy)

fraternity (people engaged in a particular occupation)

 Context examples 

Had there been in White Fang's nature any possibility, no matter how remote, of his ever coming to fraternise with his kind, such possibility was irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team.

(White Fang, by Jack London)