'Relationship' definitions:
Definition of 'relationship'
(from WordNet)
noun
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: relationship, human relationship]
noun
A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
noun
A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
noun
(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption [syn: kinship, family relationship, relationship]
Definition of 'Relationship'
From: GCIDE
- Relationship \Re*la"tion*ship\, n. The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. --Mason. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'relationship'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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