English noun: relative |
1. | relative (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 | relation |
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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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2. | relative (animal) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) |
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| Synonyms | congenator, congener, congeneric |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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