RELATIONSHIP has 4 senses

RELATIONSHIP has 4 senses:

1. 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)
2. a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
3. a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
4. (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Familiarity information: RELATIONSHIP used as a noun is uncommon.


1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
human relationship; relationship
Context example:
the relationship between mothers and their children
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
partnership (a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal)
personal relation; personal relationship (a relation between persons)

2
Meaning:
A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
sexual relationship (a relationship involving sexual intimacy)
love affair; romance (a relationship between two lovers)
anaclisis ((psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure)

3
Meaning:
A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
account; business relationship (a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services)
acquaintance; acquaintanceship (a relationship less intimate than friendship)
affiliation; association; tie; tie-up (a social or business relationship)
assimilation (the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family)
friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends)
membership (the state of being a member)
subjection; subjugation (forced submission to control by others)

4
Meaning:
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
family relationship; kinship; relationship
Hypernyms ("relationship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Domain category:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relationship"):
marital bed; marital relationship (the relationship between wife and husband)
brotherhood (the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings)
sisterhood; sistership (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)
maternity; motherhood (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)
fatherhood; paternity (the kinship relation between an offspring and the father)
birth; parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)
blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity ((anthropology) related by blood)
affinity ((anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship)
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)
affinity; phylogenetic relation ((biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts)

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