[syn: kinship, family relationship, relationship]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Relationship \Re*la"tion*ship\, n.
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other
alliance. --Mason.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
relationship
n 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: relationship, 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: (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage
or adoption [syn: kinship, family relationship,
relationship]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "relationship":
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