Synonyms for relation
rɪˈleɪ ʃənre·la·tion

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1. relationnoun

   The manner in which two things may be associated.

   The relation between diet and health is complex.

   Synonyms:
   correspondence, relationship, relative, link, recount, connection, tell

2. relationnoun

   A member of one's family.

   Yes, he's a relation of mine, but a only distant one.

   Synonyms:
   relative, tell, link, correspondence, connection, recount, relationship

3. relationnoun

   The act of relating a story.

   Your relation of the events is different from mine.

   Synonyms:
   link, recount, connection, tell, relative, correspondence, relationship

4. relationnoun

   A set of ordered tuples.

   Synonyms:
   correspondence, tell, link, relative, relationship, connection, recount

5. relationnoun

   Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.

   Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.

   Synonyms:
   correspondence, tell, relative, connection, recount, link, relationship

6. relationnoun

   A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

   This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.

   Synonyms:
   connection, relationship, relative, recount, link, tell, correspondence

7. relationnoun

   A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

   Synonyms:
   correspondence, relationship, link, connection, relative, recount, tell

8. relationnoun

   The act of intercourse

   Synonyms:
   connection, relative, tell, link, relationship, recount, correspondence

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. relation

   Analogy is specifically a resemblance of relations; a resemblance that may be reasoned from, so that from the likeness in certain respects we may infer that other and perhaps deeper relations exist. Affinity is a mutual attraction with or without seeming likeness; as, the affinity of iron for oxygen. Coincidence is complete agreement in some one or more respects; there may be a coincidence in time of most dissimilar events. Parity of reasoning is said of an argument equally conclusive on subjects not strictly analogous. Similitude is a rhetorical comparison of one thing to another with which it has some points in common. Resemblance and similarity are external or superficial, and may involve no deeper relation; as, the resemblance of a cloud to a distant mountain. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Synonyms:
   affinity, analogy, coincidence, comparison, likeness, parity, proportion, resemblance, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude

   Antonyms:
   disagreement, disproportion, dissimilarity, incongruity, unlikeness

   Preposition:
   The analogy between (or of) nature and revelation; the analogy of sound to light; a family has some analogy with (or to) a state.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. relation

   Synonyms:
   reference, aspect, connection, narration, proportion, bearing, affinity, homogeneity, association, relevancy, pertinency, fitness, harmony, ratio, relative, agreement, kinsman, kindred, appurtenancy

   Antonyms:
   irrelation, disconnection, dissociation, irrelevancy, impertinency, disproportion, disproportion, unfitness, unsuitableness, heterogeneity, disharmony, disagreement, alien

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. relationnoun

   an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

   Synonyms:
   relative, recounting, carnal knowledge, relation back, congress, intercourse, coitus, sexual relation, sexual congress, telling, sexual intercourse, copulation, sex act, coition

2. sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledgenoun

   the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

   Synonyms:
   relative, social intercourse, recounting, carnal knowledge, relation back, congress, intercourse, coitus, sexual relation, sexual congress, telling, sexual intercourse, copulation, sex act, coition

3. relative, relationnoun

   a person related by blood or marriage

   "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

   Synonyms:
   sexual relation, congener, intercourse, sexual intercourse, carnal knowledge, recounting, relation back, congenator, copulation, telling, coitus, sex act, relative, congeneric, congress, sexual congress, coition

4. relation, telling, recountingnoun

   an act of narration

   "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

   Synonyms:
   notification, sexual relation, tattle, intercourse, sexual intercourse, singing, copulation, recounting, relation back, carnal knowledge, apprisal, telling, coitus, sex act, relative, congress, sexual congress, coition

5. relation back, relationnoun

   (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time

   "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"

   Synonyms:
   sexual congress, relative, recounting, carnal knowledge, congress, intercourse, coitus, sexual relation, telling, sexual intercourse, coition, copulation, sex act, relation back

6. relationnoun

   (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups

   "international relations"

   Synonyms:
   relative, recounting, carnal knowledge, relation back, congress, intercourse, coitus, sexual relation, sexual congress, telling, sexual intercourse, copulation, sex act, coition

Matched Categories

1. • Dealings
   • Law
   • Legal Principle
   • Narration

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   recital, narration, narrative, account, statement, story, history, chronicle, tale, description, detail, report

2. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   connection, relationship, mutual dependence

3. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   reference, respect, regard

4. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   relationship, kindred, kin, consanguinity, filiation, family tie

5. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   kinsman, relative, kinsfolk

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1. relationnoun

   Synonyms:
   connection, bearing, relationship, reference, correlation, alliance, correspondence, relevancy, affinity, consanguinity, kindred, kinship, cognation, filiation, telling, account, recital, narration, narrative, detail, report

   Antonyms:
   irrelation, alienage

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1. List of paraphrases for "relation":

   relationship, regard, report, respect, connection, relatively, relating, link, related, relations, relative, context, regards, comparison

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1. Louis K. Anspacher:

   Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

2. Tourism Elena Kountoura:

   If the data we have so far is accurate and continues to show this positive trend, Greek tourism will have a positive season for 2015 in relation to previous years.

3. Ivan Alcantara:

   The deaths of the couple and Miranda are the ones that really put this in the international spotlight, were waiting for the authorities to conclude their tests. When they report the results, and if theres a relation, a link among the deaths, a pattern -- which right now we dont see, and dont believe there is -- then well have an official response. The toxicological results either will put an end to this chapter and we can move on, or it will lead to something else and we will have to address it.

4. Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber:

   Our investigation is of great complexity and quite substantial. To give you an example, the OAG (Office of the Attorney General) has seized around nine terabytes of data, so far our investigative team obtained evidence concerning 104 banking relations. And be aware that every banking relation represents several bank accounts.

5. Leonard Bernstein:

   It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.