Relationship

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Relationship \Re*la"tion*ship\, n.
     The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other
     alliance. --Mason.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  relationship
       n 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); "the relationship between mothers and
            their children" [syn: {human relationship}]
       2: a state of connectedness between people (especially an
          emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of
          the relationship"
       3: a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties
          or countries
       4: state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or
          adoption [syn: {kinship}, {family relationship}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "relationship":
     accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity,
     agnation, alliance, ancestry, approximation, assemblage,
     association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood,
     brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry,
     common descent, connectedness, connection, consanguinity,
     contiguity, contrariety, cousinhood, cousinship, dealings,
     deduction, disjunction, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity,
     homology, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred, kinship,
     liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage,
     matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction,
     nearness, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny,
     propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations,
     sibship, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in,
     ties of blood, union