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relationship

noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/
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  • /ɹəˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/ weak vowel merger
  • Australian: /ɹəˈlæ̝ɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/
  • CMU ARPABET: R IY0 L EY1 SH AH0 N SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Connection or association; the condition of being related.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: alliance

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: alliance

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A romantic or sexual involvement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • They have been in a relationship for ten years, but have never married.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: footing
  • I have a good working relationship with my boss.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: footing

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

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)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the relationship between mothers and their children

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: human relationship

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: relation

Narrower terms: partnership, personal relation, personal relationship

8

noun

Meaning 8

(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: kinship, family relationship

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: relation

Narrower terms: affinity, phylogenetic relation, descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation, consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation, parentage, birth, fatherhood, paternity, motherhood, maternity, sisterhood, sistership, brotherhood, marital relationship, marital bed

9

noun

Meaning 9

a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: state

Narrower terms: anaclisis, love affair, romance, sexual relationship

10

noun

Meaning 10

a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: state

Narrower terms: account, business relationship, acquaintance, acquaintanceship, affiliation, association, tie, tie-up, assimilation, friendship, friendly relationship, membership, subjugation, subjection

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English relation Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English relationship From relation + -ship. Displaced native Old English sibb.

Across languages

Translations

248 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: marrëdhënie — connection or association
  • Arabic: عَلَاقَة (ʕalāqa) — connection or association
  • Arabic: مُنَاسَبَة (munāsaba) — connection or association
  • Armenian: հարաբերություն (haraberutʻyun) — connection or association
  • Armenian: փոխհարաբերություն (pʻoxharaberutʻyun) — connection or association
  • Asturian: rellación — connection or association
  • Azerbaijani: münasibət — connection or association
  • Azerbaijani: əlaqə — connection or association
  • Belarusian: адно́сіны (adnósiny) — connection or association
  • Breton: darempred — connection or association
  • Bulgarian: връ́зка (vrǎ́zka) — connection or association
  • Bulgarian: отноше́ние (otnošénie) — connection or association
  • Burmese: အဆက်အသွယ် (a.hcak-a.swai) — connection or association
  • Catalan: relació — connection or association
  • Chinese Cantonese: 關係 /关系 (gwaan1 hai6) — connection or association
  • Chinese Mandarin: 關係 /关系 (guānxì) — connection or association
  • Czech: vztah — connection or association
  • Danish: forhold — connection or association
  • Dutch: verwantschap — connection or association
  • Esperanto: rilato — connection or association
  • Estonian: suhe — connection or association
  • Finnish: suhde — connection or association
  • Finnish: yhteys — connection or association
  • French: rapport — connection or association
  • West-Frisian: sibskip — connection or association
  • Galician: relación — connection or association
  • Georgian: ურთიერთობა (urtiertoba) — connection or association
  • German: Beziehung — connection or association
  • German: Verwandtschaft — connection or association
  • Greek: σχέση (schési) — connection or association
  • Gujarati: સંબંધ (sambandh) — connection or association
  • Hebrew: מַעֲרֶכֶת יְחָסִים (ma'arékhet yekhasím) — connection or association
  • Hebrew: קֶשֶׁר (késher) — connection or association
  • Hindi: रिश्ता (riśtā) — connection or association
  • Hindi: संबंध (sambandh) — connection or association
  • Hindi: रिश्तेदारी (riśtedārī) — connection or association
  • Hungarian: kapcsolat — connection or association
  • Hungarian: viszony — connection or association
  • Icelandic: samband — connection or association
  • Ido: relato — connection or association
  • Indonesian: relasi — connection or association
  • Indonesian: hubungan — connection or association
  • Interlingua: relation — connection or association
  • Interlingua: connexion — connection or association
  • Irish: baint — connection or association
  • Irish: comhchaidreamh — connection or association
  • Irish: gaolmhaireacht — connection or association
  • Italian: rapporto — connection or association
  • Italian: relazione — connection or association
  • Japanese: 関係 (kankei) — connection or association
  • Kazakh: қарым-қатынас (qarym-qatynas) — connection or association
  • Kazakh: қарым-қатыс (qarym-qatys) — connection or association
  • Kazakh: қатынас (qatynas) — connection or association
  • Khmer: ការទាក់ទង (kaa tĕək tɔɔng) — connection or association
  • Korean: 관계 (gwan'gye) — connection or association
  • Northern Kurdish: minasibet — connection or association
  • Northern Kurdish: eleqe — connection or association
  • Kyrgyz: мамиле (mamile) — connection or association
  • Kyrgyz: алака (alaka) — connection or association
  • Ladino: alishik — connection or association
  • Ladino: relasyón — connection or association
  • Latin: necessitudo — connection or association
  • Latvian: attiecība — connection or association
  • Lithuanian: sántykis — connection or association
  • Macedonian: врска (vrska) — connection or association
  • Macedonian: однос (odnos) — connection or association
  • Malay: hubungan — connection or association
  • Malayalam: ബന്ധം (bandhaṁ) — connection or association
  • Māori: hononga — connection or association
  • Māori: pātahitanga — connection or association
  • Marathi: नाते (nāte) — connection or association
  • Mongolian: харилцаа (xarilcaa) — connection or association
  • Mongolian: холбоо (xolboo) — connection or association
  • Nepali: सम्बन्ध (sambandha) — connection or association
  • Norwegian Bokmål: forhold — connection or association
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tilhøve — connection or association
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: samband — connection or association
  • Occitan: relacion — connection or association
  • Pashto: اړيکه (aṛika) — connection or association
  • Pashto: ارتباط (ertebāt) — connection or association
  • Pashto: علاقه (alāqá) — connection or association
  • Pashto: مناسبت — connection or association
  • Iranian Persian: رابِطِه (râbete) — connection or association
  • Iranian Persian: نِسْبَت (nesbat) — connection or association
  • Iranian Persian: مُناسِبَت (monâsebat) — connection or association
  • Iranian Persian: عَلاقِه (alâġe) — connection or association
  • Polish: związek — connection or association
  • Polish: powiązanie — connection or association
  • Polish: relacja — connection or association
  • Polish: stosunek — connection or association
  • Portuguese: relacionamento — connection or association
  • Portuguese: relação — connection or association
  • Romanian: relație — connection or association
  • Romanian: legătură — connection or association
  • Romanian: raport — connection or association
  • Romanian: asociere — connection or association
  • Russian: отноше́ние (otnošénije) — connection or association
  • Russian: взаимоотноше́ние (vzaimootnošénije) — connection or association
  • Russian: взаимосвя́зь (vzaimosvjázʹ) — connection or association
  • Russian: каса́тельство (kasátelʹstvo) — connection or association
  • Russian: связь (svjazʹ) — connection or association
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàimh — connection or association
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̀днос — connection or association
  • Serbo-Croatian: òdnos — connection or association
  • Slovak: vzťah — connection or association
  • Slovene: odnos — connection or association
  • Slovene: zveza — connection or association
  • Spanish: relación — connection or association
  • Swahili: uhusiano — connection or association
  • Swahili: husiano — connection or association
  • Swedish: relation — connection or association
  • Swedish: förhållande — connection or association
  • Tagalog: kaugnayan — connection or association
  • Tagalog: relasyon — connection or association
  • Tajik: робита (robita) — connection or association
  • Tajik: нисбат (nisbat) — connection or association
  • Tajik: муносибат (munosibat) — connection or association
  • Tajik: алоқа (aloqa) — connection or association
  • Telugu: సంబంధము (sambandhamu) — connection or association
  • Thai: สัมพันธไมตรี (sǎm-pan-tá-mai-dtrii) — connection or association
  • Turkish: ilişki — connection or association
  • Turkish: bağlantı — connection or association
  • Ottoman Turkish: نسبت (nisbet) — connection or association
  • Ukrainian: відно́сини (vidnósyny) — connection or association
  • Ukrainian: взаємовідно́сини (vzajemovidnósyny) — connection or association
  • Urdu: رِشْتِہ داری (riśti dārī) — connection or association
  • Urdu: رِشْتَہ (riśta) — connection or association
  • Urdu: مناسبت — connection or association
  • Uyghur: مۇناسىۋەت (munasiwet) — connection or association
  • Uzbek: munosabat — connection or association
  • Uzbek: muomala — connection or association
  • Vietnamese: liên hệ — connection or association
  • Vietnamese: quan hệ — connection or association
  • Bulgarian: отноше́ние (otnošénie) — the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics
  • Māori: pānga — the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics
  • Russian: отноше́ние (otnošénije) — the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics
  • Swedish: förhållande — the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics
  • Arabic: صِلَة (ṣila) — kinship
  • Arabic: عَلَاقَة (ʕalāqa) — kinship
  • Azerbaijani: qohumluq — kinship
  • Azerbaijani: əqrabalıq — kinship
  • Belarusian: ро́днасць (ródnascʹ) — kinship
  • Belarusian: ро́днасьць (ródnasʹcʹ) — kinship
  • Belarusian: свая́цтва (svajáctva) — kinship
  • Bulgarian: ро́дство (ródstvo) — kinship
  • Bulgarian: родни́нство (rodnínstvo) — kinship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 親屬關係 /亲属关系 (qīnshǔ guānxì) — kinship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血緣 /血缘 (xuèyuán) — kinship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 親屬 /亲属 (qīnshǔ) — kinship
  • Czech: příbuznost — kinship
  • Czech: příbuzenství — kinship
  • Danish: slægtskab — kinship
  • Esperanto: parenceco — kinship
  • Finnish: sukulaisuus — kinship
  • Finnish: sukulaisuussuhde — kinship
  • French: relation — kinship
  • Galician: parentesco — kinship
  • Georgian: ნათესაობა (natesaoba) — kinship
  • German: Verwandtschaft — kinship
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰 (sibja) — kinship
  • Greek: συγγένεια (syngéneia) — kinship
  • Gujarati: સગપણ (sagpaṇ) — kinship
  • Hindi: रिश्ता (riśtā) — kinship
  • Hungarian: rokonság — kinship
  • Ido: parenteso — kinship
  • Irish: gaol — kinship
  • Irish: gaolmhaireacht — kinship
  • Irish: cleamhnas — kinship
  • Italian: parentela — kinship
  • Japanese: 血族関係 (ketsuzoku kankei) — kinship
  • Japanese: 血縁 — kinship
  • Japanese: 親族 (shinzoku) — kinship
  • Khmer: ញាតិភាព (ñiətphiəp) — kinship
  • Khmer: ញាតិវង្ស (ñiətvŭəng) — kinship
  • Korean: 친족 관계 (chinjok gwan'gye) — kinship
  • Korean: 혈연 (hyeoryeon) — kinship
  • Korean: 친족 (chinjok) — kinship
  • Latin: coniūnctiō — kinship
  • Macedonian: сродство (srodstvo) — kinship
  • Nepali: नाता (nātā) — kinship
  • Plautdietsch: Veheltniss — kinship
  • Polish: pokrewieństwo — kinship
  • Portuguese: parentesco — kinship
  • Romanian: rudenie — kinship
  • Romanian: înrudire — kinship
  • Russian: родство́ (rodstvó) — kinship
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàimh — kinship
  • Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas — kinship
  • Serbo-Croatian: сро̀дство — kinship
  • Serbo-Croatian: sròdstvo — kinship
  • Slovak: príbuzenstvo — kinship
  • Slovene: sorodstvo — kinship
  • Swedish: släktskap — kinship
  • Telugu: బంధుత్వము (bandhutvamu) — kinship
  • Turkish: akrabalık — kinship
  • Turkish: hısımlık — kinship
  • Turkish: karabet — kinship
  • Turkish: kohumluk — kinship
  • Ukrainian: спорі́днення (sporídnennja) — kinship
  • Ukrainian: спорі́дненість (sporídnenistʹ) — kinship
  • Korean: 관계 (gwan'gye) — the way in which people behave and are involved with each other
  • Māori: taunekeneke — the way in which people behave and are involved with each other
  • Swedish: förhållande — the way in which people behave and are involved with each other
  • Armenian: հարաբերություններ (haraberutʻyunner) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Bulgarian: връ́зка (vrǎ́zka) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Chinese Mandarin: 情愛關係 /情爱关系 (qíng'ài guānxi) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Chinese Mandarin: 性關係 /性关系 (xìngguānxi) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Czech: vztah — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Danish: forhold — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Dutch: relatie — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Dutch: verhouding — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Esperanto: amrilato — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Faroese: samband — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Finnish: suhde — romantic or sexual involvement
  • French: relation — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Georgian: ურთიერთობა (urtiertoba) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • German: Beziehung — romantic or sexual involvement
  • German: Verhältnis — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Greek: σχέση (schési) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Hungarian: kapcsolat — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Hungarian: párkapcsolat — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Hungarian: viszony — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Icelandic: samband — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Irish: baint — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Italian: storia — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Italian: legame — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Italian: relazione — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Macedonian: врска (vrska) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Marathi: संबंध (sambandha) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Norwegian Bokmål: forhold — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Polish: stosunek — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Portuguese: relacionamento — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Portuguese: relação — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Romanian: relație — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Romanian: legătură — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Russian: рома́н (román) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Russian: интри́га (intríga) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Russian: любо́вные отноше́ния (ljubóvnyje otnošénija) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Serbo-Croatian: ве̏за — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Serbo-Croatian: vȅza — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Spanish: relación — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Spanish: noviazgo — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Swedish: förhållande — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Swedish: relation — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Tagalog: relasyon — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Telugu: సంబంధము (sambandhamu) — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Turkish: ilişki — romantic or sexual involvement
  • Ukrainian: відно́сини (vidnósyny) — romantic or sexual involvement
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