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relation
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relation
n.
narration, act of telling; kinsman, family member; connection, association; connection between two persons, relationship
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Relation
Relation or relations may refer to:
General use
- Kinship, relationship by genealogical origin
- Social relations, in social science, social interaction between two or more individuals
- International relations, strategies chosen by a state to safeguard its national interests and achieve its foreign policy objectives
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relation
Noun
1. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
(hypernym) abstraction
(hyponym) social relation
(derivation) relate, interrelate
2. 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
(synonym) sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, carnal knowledge
(hypernym) sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
(hyponym) defloration
(part-meronym) insemination
3. a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
(synonym) relative
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root
(member-holonym) kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe
4. an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
(synonym) telling, recounting
(hypernym) narration, recital, yarn
(derivation) relate
5. (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"
(synonym) relation back
(hypernym) legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine
(classification) law, jurisprudence
6. (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
(hypernym) dealings, traffic
(derivation) relate, interrelate
(classification) plural, plural form
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Relation (die)
nf.
relation, narration, report, detailed account of an occurrence or situation; connection, association, connection between two persons, relationship; link, junction
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relation
nf.
connection, relation; link, bearing
