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