fraternization
noun
fraternization is a noun meaning “The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-T-E-R-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fraternization is fraternizations.
What does fraternization mean?
noun
- 1
The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.
- 2
Having a friendly relationship with the enemy.
- 3
USderogatoryany type of disallowed, supposedly unethical and unprofessional, social or intimate contact between employees, especially between different gender, class or rank.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fraternization?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fraternization.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fraternization
- fraternizations plural
- fraternisation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fraternization?
Fraternization appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fraternization in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of fraternizing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fraternisation |
| German | Verbrüderung |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fraternization come from?
From French fraternisation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).