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relationship

noun
/ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/US/ɹəˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌʃɪp/

Etymology

From relation + -ship.

  1. derived from relātiō
  2. derived from relacion
  3. derived from relacioun
  4. inherited from relacion
  5. formed as relationship — “relation + -ship”

Definitions

  1. Connection or association

    Connection or association; the condition of being related.

  2. The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially…

    The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.

    • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

  3. Kinship

    Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A romantic or sexual involvement.

      • They have been in a relationship for ten years, but have never married.
      • I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.
      • Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

    2. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.

      • I have a good working relationship with my boss.

    3. The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

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Derived

antirelationship, blood relationship, brolationship, customer relationship, cyberrelationship, entity-relationship diagram, entity relationship diagram, entity-relationship model, e-relationship, fakeship, flirtationship, interrelationship, intrarelationship, isolationship, legal relationship, long-distance relationship, new relationship energy, nonrelationship, open relationship, rebound relationship, relationship anarchy, relationshipless, relationshiply, relationshipper, relationshipping, relationshippy, relationship status, relationshipwise, relationshit, relationshopping, relfie, sexship, situationship, special relationship, steprelationship, step-relationship, structure-activity relationship, textationship, unrelationshipped, vacationship

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at relationship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at relationship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at relationship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA