relation
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8.3
- noun
- /rɪˈleɪʃən/
- NSFW
- Many young people feel pressure to explore relations during their college years.
- sexual relations
- engage in sexual relations
- intimate relations
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Watch on YouTubeYou have been caught having sexual relations with your pet squirrel.
- You have been caught having sexual relations with your pet squirrel.
- We we had relations on the first date.
- Aristotle doesn't view sexual relations or gender relations as inherently egalitarian.
- He stops even trying to to have relations with her.
- So Wednesday night when you go to bed, you do have relations.
- And so Epictetus is saying this about, you know, sexual relations.
- Like, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
- I did not have sexual relations with that Ottoman.
- I was in the bathroom, sexual relations, doing some stuff and sucked.
- Effects my security, personal relations, sex relations, and pride.
- My mother's ill, but she might improve if we were to have sexual relations never worked.
Examples
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So two years ago, I did not have sexual relations with that man.
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The couple decided to engage in relations after years of friendship.
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When, out of love, she agrees to have sexual relations with him, he loses faith in her too.
Academic text (1990) -
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
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And when did you start having sexual relations with the Indagato?
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When you say your sexual relations with Miss Lawson were intense, what exactly do you mean?
Fiction book (1993) -
According to Christian moral precepts, the main objective of sexual relations was procreation.
Academic text (1999) -
He was accused of having intimate relations with a 16-year-old girl, Irene Hoffman.
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They both agreed that their relations would remain private and consensual.
Synonyms
477
5.1
Sexual activity between two people, often including intercourse
108
7.8
Sex that involves a man's penis entering a woman's vagina
38
3.0
Physical acts between people, like touching or having sex, that give pleasure
38
3.4
Sex between people, for example in a romantic or casual relationship
34
3.2
An act in which one person's penis enters another person's vagina
25
3.7
Sexual activity between people, often intercourse
21
9.6
Sex between people who are not married
9
8.5
An act in which a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina
7
8.2
Sex in which a male inserts his penis into a female's vagina
3
7.5
To have sex with someone
3
8.3
The act of having sex that completes a marriage
2
8.3
Sex between people, usually meaning one person entering another, used in legal texts
2
3.1
Private actions between people that involve touching for pleasure
1
4.9
A male and female have sex to make babies
1
8.3
Sex between two people who are not married to each other
1
9.9
Sex when a man's penis goes into a woman's vagina
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
2
5.4
A person or thing that others see as less important than the rest of the group
- Formal
1
3.8
A private professional relationship where a doctor cares for a patient
- Formal
1
6.7
A relationship between people or groups that the law recognizes, like lawyer and client
1
4.8
A relationship between a trained helper and a person who gets their help, like a doctor or lawyer
- Specialized
1
6.3
A connection between multiple statements that shows if one follows another, is the same, or is the opposite
- Formal
1
8.9
A relationship where one person trusts another who must act for their benefit
- Formal
1
5.5
A duty of people in a business together to act honestly and protect each other's interests
- Formal
1
3.6
A formal school relationship where a teacher helps and guides students
- Specialized
1
5.4
A connection between values that shows when they are equal or which is larger
- Specialized
1
7.7
A connection between words or parts of a sentence, for example agreement between adjectives and nouns
- Specialized
1
6.2
The way words and phrases connect in a sentence, like subject or object
- Specialized
1
7.0
A relation where a smaller part belongs to a larger whole, like a wheel and a car
- Specialized
1
9.8
A relationship showing how species are related because they came from the same older species
- Specialized
A link between two statements that says if one is true then the other must be true
A duty of company directors to act for the shareholders' benefit
A formal connection between teachers and their students at school or university
- Specialized
A link between a pronoun and the word that shows who or what it means
- Formal
A relationship where a lawyer must act for a client's best interests and keep matters private
- Formal
A professional relationship in which a lawyer must act for a client's benefit and keep information secret
- Specialized
A relationship where two molecules or crystals are exact mirror reflections of each other
- Formal
The way a nurse and a patient work together, with the nurse trying to help and protect the patient's health
- Formal
A legal relationship where a person in charge of a bankrupt person's property manages it for the people owed money
- Formal
A legal relationship where one person must act in another person's best interest
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word relation in phrases like 'carnal relations' uses the older idea of a 'connection' and the same Latin parts re- 'back' and ferre 'to carry'. So 'relations' here is a formal way to talk about a close physical 'connection' between people.