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association vs consortium

consortium vs association

association and consortium both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
association Yes No No No
consortium Yes No No No
As nouns, consortium is a hyponym of association; that is, consortium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than association:
  • association: a formal organization of people or groups of people
  • consortium: an association of companies for some definite purpose
Other hyponyms of association include American Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Convention, cooperative, club, gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society, family, fellowship, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, VFW, conference, league, secret society, pool, syndicate, professional association, Fabian Society, gang, mob, pack, ring, legion, chamber of commerce, institute, sisterhood, sistership, AARP, Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons, National Association of Realtors, ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
association (noun) consortium (noun)
the act of consorting with or joining with others an association of companies for some definite purpose
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
a formal organization of people or groups of people
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
a social or business relationship
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination
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