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English noun: relationship | |||
| 1. | relationship 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) | ||
| Samples | The relationship between mothers and their children. | ||
| Synonyms | human relationship | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | partnership, personal relation, personal relationship | ||
| 2. | relationship (state) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | ||
| Samples | He didn't want his wife to know of the relationship. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | state | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anaclisis, love affair, romance, sexual relationship | ||
| 3. | relationship (state) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | state | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | account, acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, assimilation, association, business relationship, friendly relationship, friendship, membership, subjection, subjugation, tie, tie-up | ||
| 4. | relationship (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | ||
| Synonyms | family relationship, kinship | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | affinity, affinity, birth, blood kinship, brotherhood, cognation, consanguinity, descent, fatherhood, filiation, line of descent, lineage, marital bed, marital relationship, maternity, motherhood, parentage, paternity, phylogenetic relation, sisterhood, sistership | ||
| Domain category | anthropology | ||
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