to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
To fix the paternity of
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
To be adjacent to
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
A fellow human being.