English > kinship: 2 senses > noun 2, relationMeaning | (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. |
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Synonyms | family relationship, relationship |
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Category | anthropology | The social science that studies the origins / origins and social relationships of human beings |
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Narrower | affinity | (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption |
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affinity, phylogenetic relation | (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts |
brotherhood | The kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings |
consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation | (anthropology) related by blood |
descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation | The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors |
fatherhood, paternity | The kinship relation between an offspring and the father |
marital relationship, marital bed | The relationship between wife and husband |
motherhood, maternity | The kinship relation between an offspring and the mother |
parentage, birth | The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents |
sisterhood, sistership | The kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings |
Broader | relation | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
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Spanish | parentesco, parentezco, relación familiar, relación |
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Catalan | parentesc, parentiu |
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Nouns | kin | group of people related by blood or marriage |
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kin | a person having kinship / kinship with another or others |