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Noun relationship has 4 senses
- relationship, human relationship - 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"
--1 is a kind of relation
--1 has particulars: personal relation, personal relationship
- relationship - a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
--2 is a kind of state
--2 has particulars: anaclisis; love affair, romance; sexual relationship
- relationship - a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
--3 is a kind of state
--3 has particulars:
- kinship, family relationship, relationship - state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
--4 is a kind of relation
--4 has particulars: | affinity, phylogenetic relation; descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation; affinity, kinship by marriage; consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation; parentage, birth; fatherhood, paternity; motherhood, maternity; sisterhood, sistership; brotherhood; marital relationship, marital bed |
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