Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. 2. (n.) Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. 3. (n.) Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.

Multi-Version Concordance Association (1 Occurrence) 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not come into close association with unbelievers, like oxen yoked with asses. For what is there in common between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what partnership has light with darkness? (WEY)