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

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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.

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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

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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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How to use relation in a sentence?

1. Eva Schernhammer:

   These results add to prior evidence of a potentially detrimental relation of rotating night shift work and health longevity, to derive practical implications for shift workers and their health, the role of duration and intensity of rotating night shift work and the interplay of shift schedules with individual traits (e.g., chronotype) warrant further exploration.

2. Graeme Biggar:

   The current level of reported fraud in relation to the vaccine remains very low but is increasing.

3. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi:

   Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.

4. John Updike:

   The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

5. Naguib Sawiris:

   Mohamed Fahmy has no relation to the Muslim Brotherhood organization and he is not a Muslim Brother.