RELATIONSHIP
Definition:
- [noun] a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children"
Synonyms: human
- [noun] a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
- [noun] a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- [noun] state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Synonyms: kinship, family
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Related Words:
- personal relation, personal relationship
- anaclisis
- love affair, romance
- sexual relationship
- account, business relationship
- acquaintance, acquaintanceship
- affiliation, association, tie, tie-up
- assimilation
- friendship, friendly relationship
- membership
- subjugation, subjection
- affinity, phylogenetic relation
- descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation
- affinity, kinship by marriage
- consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation
- parentage, birth
- fatherhood, paternity
- motherhood, maternity
- sisterhood, sistership
- brotherhood
- marital relationship, marital bed
