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fraternise

fraternise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fraternize.

Meaning of fraternize

Verb

fraternize (third-person singular simple present fraternizes, present participle fraternizing, simple past and past participle fraternized)

  1. (intransitive) To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
  2. (intransitive) To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
    • Now in this world it is never wise to meddle with such things. It's better to leave them as they are. No one ever had any good come to him from fraternizing with too great familiarity with the unknown; and it's a very good thing that the children from The Other Side are as shy as they are, as Alice...1920, Mary Heaton Vorse, Growing Up
  3. (intransitive) To socialize in confidentiality.
  4. (intransitive) To have an intimate or sexual relationship with a forbidden party.

Forms of fraternise

third-person singular presentfraternises
present participlefraternising
past participlefraternised
pastfraternised

Words formed from fraternise

Questions about fraternise

What is fraternise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Fraternise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fraternize.

Words near fraternise in the dictionary

  1. fraternalizing
  2. fraternally
  3. fraternals
  4. fraternisation
  5. fraternisations
  6. fraternise
  7. fraternised
  8. fraterniser
  9. fraternisers
  10. fraternises
  11. fraternising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fraternise (page history and authors); fraternize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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