relation
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1.2
- noun
- /rɪˈleɪʃən/
:
pariente
- Is he any relation to your friend Charlie?
- family relations
- blood relations
- kin relations
But no, I have no relation to Stephen King at all.
- But no, I have no relation to Stephen King at all.
- And Billy the Bat, Billy Gormand is his relation and we know him well.
- And you know, I wish to live amongst all my relations, all my relatives.
- Ferb's probably a close relation, like the third sibling, maybe the long lost brother.
- To all my relations, everyone here in this circle, I greet you with a good heart.
Examples
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No relation to Conrad Donaldson QC by any chance, are we?
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Truman's parents deserted him at an early age... ...leaving him with elderly relations in my town.
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His wife is a relation of General The.
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But no, I have no relation to Stephen King at all.
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In my experience, it is usually relations who pay.
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Please tell your sister that I have many relations, friends, and colleagues who rely upon me daily.
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And you know, I wish to live amongst all my relations, all my relatives.
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To all my relations, everyone here in this circle, I greet you with a good heart.
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His sufferings were culminating, and here she was, his only flesh-and-blood relation to help at this dire moment.
Fiction book (1994) -
Is he any relation to your friend Charlie?
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A child of your aunt or uncle
645
1.0
A person who is in your family by blood or marriage
275
1.0
A parent of your mother or father
21
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
9
3.0
A person in your family by birth, not by marriage or adoption
9
7.0
A man who is a family member by birth
3
2.8
A person who comes from the same family as you by birth, not by marriage
1
9.4
A person who shares an ancestor with you, often a distant relative
A person who is related to you by blood or marriage
A person who is related by blood and shares a common ancestor
A family member related to you by marriage, not by blood, like a mother-in-law
Relatives who come from the father's family line
A relative who is from your mother's family
A relative on the father's side of a family
A child of your aunt or uncle
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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5.4
A person or thing that others see as less important than the rest of the group
- 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
- Formal
A private professional relationship where a doctor cares for a patient
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 relationship where one person trusts another who must act for their benefit
- Formal
A professional relationship in which a lawyer must act for a client's benefit and keep information secret
- Formal
A relationship between people or groups that the law recognizes, like lawyer and client
- Specialized
A connection between words or parts of a sentence, for example agreement between adjectives and nouns
- Specialized
A connection between multiple statements that shows if one follows another, is the same, or is the opposite
- Specialized
A connection between values that shows when they are equal or which is larger
- Specialized
A relationship where two molecules or crystals are exact mirror reflections of each other
- Specialized
The way words and phrases connect in a sentence, like subject or object
- Formal
The way a nurse and a patient work together, with the nurse trying to help and protect the patient's health
A relationship between a trained helper and a person who gets their help, like a doctor or lawyer
- Formal
A legal relationship where a person in charge of a bankrupt person's property manages it for the people owed money
- Specialized
A relation where a smaller part belongs to a larger whole, like a wheel and a car
- Formal
A duty of people in a business together to act honestly and protect each other's interests
- Specialized
A relationship showing how species are related because they came from the same older species
- Formal
A formal school relationship where a teacher helps and guides students
- Formal
A legal relationship where one person must act in another person's best interest
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Relation comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and ferre 'to carry', which gave the idea of 'bringing back' news or showing a link. So a family relation is someone 'connected' to you by blood or marriage, like the word relative.