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Relation
RELA'TION, n. [L. relatio, refero.]
1. The act of telling; recital; account; narration; narrative of facts; as a historical relation. We listened to the relation of his adventures.
2. Respect; reference; regard.
I have been importuned to make some observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry.
3. Connection between things; mutual respect, or what one thing is with regard to another; as the relation of a citizen to the state; the relation of a subject to the supreme authority; the relation of husband and wife, or of master and servant; the relation of a state of probation to a state of retribution.
4. Kindred; alliance; as the relation of parents and children.
Relations dear, and all the charities of father, son and brother, first were known.
5. A person connected by consanguinity or affinity; a kinsman or kinswoman. He passed a month with his relations in the country.
6. Resemblance of phenomena; analogy.
7. In geometry, ratio; proportion.
relation appears in definitions for these words:
Absolute Absolutely Abstract Account Accusatively Action Adjunct Adoption Adrogation Affinity Agnate Agnation Alliance Ally Analogical Analogically Anger Annals Apologue Appeal Applicable As Badge Barrator Belong Between Bill Blood Bull Calif Case Category Cater-cousin Charity Chime Class Cleavage Client Co-ordination Cogency Cognation Coherence Coherent Collateral Collaterally Commercial Compare Comparing Comparison Compaternity Concerning Concord Conformation Congruity Conjugal Connect Connection Consanguinity Consummation Conversant Cordiality Correlate Correlation Correlative Correlatively Correspondency Cosinage Cosmography Counselor Craniology Cross Cryophorus Dative Deal Dealing Degree Deportment Digression Discernment Disjoint Distance Distant Domestically Due Duplicity Duteous Enarration Essence Examination Examine External Extraneous Figural Filial Filiation Financially Flesh Foreignness Formality Gender General Genitive Geology Geometry Grand Graywacke Groop Habitude Halfblood Harmonical Harmonometer Historic History Impertinently Influx Judgment Kimbo Kindred Kinsfolk Kinswoman Law Legend Line Linear Maternity Mathematics Medically Meteorologist Method Metonymy Misrelation Moral Multifariously Museum Music Narration Nearly Nepotism Next Nigh Note Of Palaver Parable Parse Paternity Patient Pertain Pertinence Piously Politically Positive Possessive Practically Pragmatic Predicament Prelude Preposition Presage Proportion Proportionable Proportionably Proportional Proportionally Proportionate Proportionateness Prose Proud Proximately Quality Radicality Rapport Ratio Recountment Refer Referable Reference Regard Relating Relation Relational Relative Relatively Relativeness Relieve Report Respect Respective Romance Sacrament Say Seeing Sense Series Set Sib Sign Son Sonship Sound Space Specuation Speculate Stand Star State Stepp Story Strangely Subjectively Sublimation Symmetry Syntax Take Tale Text Time True Ubication Unallied Unbrotherly Unite Unrelative Unrelatively Votive Wit Worldly Worse Z Zoonomy
Absolute Absolutely Abstract Account Accusatively Action Adjunct Adoption Adrogation Affinity Agnate Agnation Alliance Ally Analogical Analogically Anger Annals Apologue Appeal Applicable As Badge Barrator Belong Between Bill Blood Bull Calif Case Category Cater-cousin Charity Chime Class Cleavage Client Co-ordination Cogency Cognation Coherence Coherent Collateral Collaterally Commercial Compare Comparing Comparison Compaternity Concerning Concord Conformation Congruity Conjugal Connect Connection Consanguinity Consummation Conversant Cordiality Correlate Correlation Correlative Correlatively Correspondency Cosinage Cosmography Counselor Craniology Cross Cryophorus Dative Deal Dealing Degree Deportment Digression Discernment Disjoint Distance Distant Domestically Due Duplicity Duteous Enarration Essence Examination Examine External Extraneous Figural Filial Filiation Financially Flesh Foreignness Formality Gender General Genitive Geology Geometry Grand Graywacke Groop Habitude Halfblood Harmonical Harmonometer Historic History Impertinently Influx Judgment Kimbo Kindred Kinsfolk Kinswoman Law Legend Line Linear Maternity Mathematics Medically Meteorologist Method Metonymy Misrelation Moral Multifariously Museum Music Narration Nearly Nepotism Next Nigh Note Of Palaver Parable Parse Paternity Patient Pertain Pertinence Piously Politically Positive Possessive Practically Pragmatic Predicament Prelude Preposition Presage Proportion Proportionable Proportionably Proportional Proportionally Proportionate Proportionateness Prose Proud Proximately Quality Radicality Rapport Ratio Recountment Refer Referable Reference Regard Relating Relation Relational Relative Relatively Relativeness Relieve Report Respect Respective Romance Sacrament Say Seeing Sense Series Set Sib Sign Son Sonship Sound Space Specuation Speculate Stand Star State Stepp Story Strangely Subjectively Sublimation Symmetry Syntax Take Tale Text Time True Ubication Unallied Unbrotherly Unite Unrelative Unrelatively Votive Wit Worldly Worse Z Zoonomy
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