English noun: relation |
| 1. | relation an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
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| Broader (hypernym) | abstract entity, abstraction |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | affinity, association, business relation, causality, change, comparison, component, component part, connectedness, connection, connexion, constituent, control, family relationship, foundation, function, human relationship, interrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationship, kinship, kinship, linguistic relation, logical relation, magnitude relation, mathematical relation, oppositeness, opposition, ownership, part, portion, position, possession, quantitative relation, reciprocality, reciprocity, relationship, relationship, social relation, spatial relation, temporal relation, unconnectedness |
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| 2. | relation (act) 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 |
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| Synonyms | carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ass, criminal congress, defloration, fuck, fucking, hank panky, nookie, nooky, penetration, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup, unlawful carnal knowledge |
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| Part holonym | insemination |
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| 3. | relation (person) a person related by blood or marriage |
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| Samples | Police are searching for relatives of the deceased.
He has distant relations back in New Jersey.
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| Synonyms | relative |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agnate, ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, better half, blood relation, blood relative, cognate, cousin, cousin-german, descendant, descendent, enate, family, first cousin, full cousin, in-law, issue, kin, kinsman, kinsperson, kinswoman, kissing cousin, kissing kin, married person, mate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib, next of kin, offspring, partner, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib, progeny, relative-in-law, root, second cousin, sib, sib, sibling, spouse |
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| Member meronym | clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe |
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| 4. | relation (communication) an act of narration |
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| Samples | He was the hero according to his own relation.
His endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable.
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| Synonyms | recounting, telling |
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| Broader (hypernym) | narration, recital, yarn |
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| 5. | relation (cognition) (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time |
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| Samples | His attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed.
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| Synonyms | relation back |
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| Broader (hypernym) | judicial doctrine, judicial principle, legal principle |
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| Domain category | jurisprudence, law |
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| 6. | relation (act) (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups |
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| Samples | International relations.
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| Broader (hypernym) | dealings, traffic |
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| Domain usage | plural, plural form |
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