Definitions for relation
rɪˈleɪ ʃənre·la·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. relationnoun

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

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

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"

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"

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"

6. relationnoun

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

   "international relations"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. relationnoun

   The manner in which two things may be associated.

   The relation between diet and health is complex.

2. relationnoun

   A member of one's family.

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

3. relationnoun

   The act of relating a story.

   Your relation of the events is different from mine.

4. relationnoun

   A set of ordered tuples.

5. relationnoun

   Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.

   Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.

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.

7. relationnoun

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

8. relationnoun

   The act of intercourse

9. Etymology: From relacioun, from relacion (cognate to French relation), from relationem, accusative of relatio, noun of process form from perfect passive participle relatus, from verb referre, from prefix re- + ferre

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Relationnoun

   Etymology: relation, Fr. from relate.

   1. Manner of belonging to any person or thing.

   Under this stone lies virtue, youth,
   Unblemish’d probity and truth;
   Just unto all relations known,
   A worthy patriot, pious son. Edmund Waller.

   So far as service imports duty and subjection, all created beings bear the necessary relation of servants to God. South.

   Our necessary relations to a family, oblige all to use their reasoning powers upon a thousand occasions. Isaac Watts.

   2. Respect; reference; regard.

   I have been importuned to make some observations on this art, in relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden.

   Relation consists in the consideration and comparing one idea with another. John Locke.

   3. Connexion between one thing and another.

   Augurs, that understand relations, have
   By magpies, choughs and rooks brought forth
   The secret’st man of blood. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   4. Kindred; alliance of kin.

   Relations dear, and all the charities
   Of fathers, son and brother first were known. John Milton.

   Be kindred and relation laid aside,
   And honour’s cause by laws of honour try’d. Dryden.

   Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? no relation? that cannot be: the gospel stiles them all our brethren; nay, they have a nearer relation to us, our fellow-members; and both these from their relation to our Saviour himself, who calls them his brethren. Thomas Sprat.

   5. Person related by birth or marriage; kinsman; kinswoman.

   A she-cousin, of a good family and small fortune, passed months among all her relations. Jonathan Swift.

   Dependants, friends, relations,
   Savag’d by woe, forget the tender tie. James Thomson.

   6. Narrative; tale; account; narration; recital of facts.

   In an historical relation, we use terms that are most proper. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   The author of a just fable, must please more than the writer of an historical relation. John Dennis, Letters.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. relation

   In mathematics, a relation is a set of ordered pairs, defined on a specific set, that relates one element to another element. The term can also refer to the connection or association between two or more concepts, elements, or objects, in various fields such as sociology, linguistics, database, etc. Moreover, in the context of human interaction, a relation refers to the way in which two or more people, groups or things are connected or behave toward each other.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Relationnoun

   the act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events

2. Relationnoun

   the state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant

3. Relationnoun

   reference; respect; regard

4. Relationnoun

   connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children

5. Relationnoun

   a person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman

6. Relationnoun

   the carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation

7. Relationnoun

   the act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Relation

   A member of a family.

   Our sister is a member of our family

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 20, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RELATION

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Relation is ranked #113155 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Relation surname appeared 155 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Relation.
   
   98% or 152 total occurrences were White.

Matched Categories

1. • Dealings
   • Law
   • Legal Principle
   • Narration

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'relation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3441

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'relation' in Nouns Frequency: #294

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Anagrams for relation »

1. tenorial

2. oriental

3. Oriental

4. tirolean

How to pronounce relation?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say relation in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of relation in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of relation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of relation in a Sentence

1. An Israeli private intelligence firm:

   Black Cube has no relation whatsoever to the President Trump administration, to President Trump aides, to anyone close to the administration, or to the Iran nuclear deal. Anyone who claims otherwise is misleading their readers and viewers.

2. Hong Kong:

   There are various analyses and interpretations in the community in relation to the results, and quite a few are of the view that the results reflect people's dissatisfaction with the current situation and the deep-seated problems in society.

3. Simin Meydani:

   In relation to Covid-19, the recommendation to increase fruits and vegetable consumption is even more important.

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. Attorney Eric Nelson:

   And now that we have U.S. representatives … threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case, it's mind boggling.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=relation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Relation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=relation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/relation
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=relation