Affiliation

1. n. Connection in the way of descent.
2. n. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
3. n. The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.