Associate
Associate verb - To come or be together as friends.
Usage example: a socially ambitious couple who joined the country club in order to associate with the right sort of people
Hang out is a synonym for associate in near topic. In some cases you can use "Hang out" instead a verb "Associate", when it comes to topics like befriend, socialize, hobnob. informal substitute
Hang out
Hang out verb - Spend time in a certain location or with certain people.
Associate is a synonym for hang out in bring together topic. You can use "Associate" instead a verb "Hang out", if it concerns topics such as socialize, be friendly at gatherings, come or bring together.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- consort and associate
- consort and hang out
- join and associate
- join and hang out
- mix and associate
- mix and hang out
- mingle and associate
- mingle and hang out
- come together and associate
- come together and hang out
- accompany and associate
- accompany and hang out
- keep company and associate
- keep company and hang out
Both terms in one sentence
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Vice Guy: Walter is heavily implied to drink, gamble, hang out at shady pool-bars, associate with low class criminals, ruffians and thugs, casually date (and bang) many sexually loose young women, and hang out with black servants.
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In Kick-Ass, Stuck up Katie will only associate with Dave because she thinks nerdy, unpopular Dave is gay (a fact that Dave has shamelessly exploited in order to be allowed to hang out with the woman he crushes on).
Source: Gay Best Friend -
Gay Best Friend: Stuck up Katie will only associate with Dave because she thinks nerdy, unpopular Dave is gay (a fact that Dave has shamelessly exploited in order to be allowed to hang out with the woman he crushes on).
Source: Comicbook / Kick-Ass
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Hang out and Associate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/associate/hang_out
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