Dictionary Definition
relationship
Noun
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɹɪˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp/
- Hyphenation: re·la·tion·ship
Etymology
Noun
- Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- A romantic or sexual involvement.
- The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
Translations
connection or assocation
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 关系 (guānxi)
- Dutch: verwantschap
- Finnish: suhde
- French: rapport
- German: Verwandtschaft
- Greek: σχέση
- Hungarian: kapcsolat
- Italian: rapporto
- Japanese: 関係 (kankei)
- Korean: 관계 (gwan-gye)
- Portuguese: relacionamento, relação
- Russian: отношение
- Spanish: relación
- Swedish: förhållande
- Telugu: సంబంధము (sambandhamu)
- Thai: (săm-pan-tá-mai-dtree)
kinship
- Finnish: sukulaisuus, sukulaisuussuhde
- Greek: συγγένεια
- Italian: parentela
- Telugu: బంధుత్వము (bandhutvamu)
romantic or sexual involvement
Extensive Definition
A relationship is a specific connection between
objects, entities or concepts. Typical forms of relationship are
social relationships between people, causal relationships between
events, and mathematical or theoretical relationships between
components of a modelled system.
Relationship may refer to:
- Interpersonal relationship and intimate relationship, including relationships based on Romantic love
- Relation (mathematics), including:
- Causality, the relationship between cause and effect
- Relational model, a database model based on predicate logic and set theory
- Customer relationship management, the management of the relationship between a supplier and its customers
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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