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# affiliation

«affiliation» in Mova's school dictionary: **An official connection with a group, club, party or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (affiliation, affiliations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An official connection with a group, club, party or organisation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#m1)

2) The feeling of belonging to a group or the group you belong to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#m2)

3) Affiliation can also mean the tracing of where something came from and how it is linked to its source. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in civics («political affiliation»), religion («religious affiliation»), and on forms. Phrases: «in affiliation with», «party affiliation».

### examples

- The club has an affiliation with the national body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x1)
- Her political affiliation was not mentioned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x2)
- The census asks about religious affiliation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x3)
- The school's affiliation with the museum gives us free trips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x4)
- He listed his university affiliation in the paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x5)
- Team shirts show your affiliation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x6)
- They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not yet quite 100 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/#x7)

### note

Countable. From the verb «affiliate». A formal word; everyday: «link», «connection».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «affiliation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/affiliation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.