fraternise

Questions about fraternise

What does fraternise mean?

fraternise means "be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy".

How many syllables are in fraternise?

fraternise has 3 syllables and divides as fra-ter-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fraternise?

Close synonyms include fraternize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fraternise a common word?

fraternise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.