English > relationship: 4 senses > noun 4, relation| Meaning | (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. |
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| Synonyms | kinship, family 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 | relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
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| relation | a person related by blood or marriage |
