RELATION

Definition:

1. [noun] an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
   
   
2. [noun] the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
   Synonyms: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual carnal knowledge
   
   
3. [noun] a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
   Synonyms: relative
   
   
4. [noun] an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
   Synonyms: telling, recounting
   
   
5. [noun] (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"
   Synonyms: back
   
   
6. [noun] (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
   
   

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Related Words:

• social relation
• position, spatial relation
• ownership
• causality
• relationship, human relationship
• function
• association
• logical relation
• mathematical relation
• foundation
• connection, connexion, connectedness
• unconnectedness
• linguistic relation
• part, portion, component part, component
• affinity, kinship
• kinship, family relationship, relationship
• magnitude relation, quantitative relation
• control
• business relation
• reciprocality, reciprocity
• interrelation, interrelationship, interrelatedness
• temporal relation
• comparison
• opposition, oppositeness
• change
• defloration
• fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup
• hank panky
• penetration
• unlawful carnal knowledge, criminal congress
• ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root
• cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin
• descendant, descendent
• in-law, relative-in-law
• blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib
• kin, kinsperson, family
• enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrisib, matrilineal sib
• agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• kissing cousin, kissing kin
• next of kin
• offspring, progeny, issue
• second cousin
• sibling, sib
• spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half

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