Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition or fact of being related; connection or association.
- n. Connection by blood or marriage; kinship.
- n. A particular type of connection existing between people related to or having dealings with each other: has a close relationship with his siblings.
- n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
- n. In music, same as relation, 8. Also called tone-relationship.
Wiktionary
- n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
- n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
- n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
- n. The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
- n. a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
- n. (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
- n. 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)
Examples
“Though there are many, both men and women, who still try to build a solid relationship from a “Purely Sexual” relationship much to their folly.”
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“Hogan's relationship with a range of Rupert Murdoch-owned companies and Lovells 'longstanding relationship with ITV are expected to create conflict issues for the merged firm.”
“Let’s see here my last real relationship was with Andy .. and that was from October 7th, 2002-January 2nd, 2003.. and then we had like a fling at the end of February through mid-March or whatever, but yeah, that was my last real relationship and it ended with him going wack.”
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“In an HBO show you can get away with a character-study show like the recent boxing episode, where the main relationship is ugly and wrong (between Lee and Kara) and gets no real resolution except that it will continue to be wrong and ugly.”
“In fact, in perhaps the oddest bit of the staging, the pants role of Ramiro was tweaked to imply that the character may, in fact, be a woman and that this relationship is a lesbian one.”
“This relationship is my future; it's what I want out of life.”
“In short, the history of our relationship is the history of a mutual and stubborn deceit.”
“It seems to me that the relationship is almost monotonic, with the only prolonged exceptions being Russia and much of East Asia under communism.”
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“My own investigations (as part of my thesis, on-line separately here) lead me to conclude that the relationship is a bit more complex than that.”
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