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relations - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection, family connection |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity, kinsperson |
| Main Entry: | coherence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | adherence, attachment, bond, cling, clinging, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, integrity, solidarity, tenacity, union, unity, cementation, comprehensibility, concordance, inseparability, inseparableness, intelligibility, rationality, relations, stickage |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility |
| Main Entry: | family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, blood, brood, clan, class, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, genealogy, genre, group, house, household, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, network, pedigree, people, progeny, race, relationship, strain, subdivision, system, tribe, ancestors, children, descendants, forebears, generations, heirs and assigns, in-laws, ménage, parentage, progenitors, relations, relatives, siblings |
| Main Entry: | fornication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
| Synonyms: | copulation, intimacy, lovemaking, sex, coition, coitus, relations, screwing around, sleeping around |
| Main Entry: | kinship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, family, flesh, folk, kin, kindred, lineage, tribe, relations |
| Main Entry: | copulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coitus |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, procreation, sex, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, coition, coupling, fooling around, mating, nooky, relations, sexual union |
| Main Entry: | carnal knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual intercourse |
| Synonyms: | copulation, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, procreation, sex, coition, coitus, love making, relations, sex act, sexual congress, sexual relation |
| Main Entry: | sexual relations |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | having sex |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, copulation, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, sexual intercourse, cohabitation, coitus, marital relations, mating, nookie, relations, screwing, sexual union, sleeping together, sleeping with |
| Main Entry: | extended family |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parents, children, and relatives |
| Synonyms: | binuclear family, kinship group, ménage, nuclear family, relations |
| Main Entry: | kith and kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquaintances and relatives |
| Synonyms: | consanguinity, family, kin, kindred, acquaintances, friends and relatives, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsmen, relations, relatives |
| Main Entry: | intercourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual act |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, copulation, fornication, intimacy, sex, sexual relations, coition, coitus, love-making, relations |
| Main Entry: | truck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, merchandise |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, communication, communion, connection, contact, dealings, exchange, goods*, intercourse, stock, stuff*, trade, traffic, wares*, buying and selling, commercial goods, commodities, relations |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, consanguinity, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, stock, descendants, relations |
| Main Entry: | footing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social status |
| Synonyms: | capacity, character, condition, grade, place, position, rank, relationship, situation, standing, state, station, terms, relations |
| Main Entry: | sex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intercourse between animate beings |
| Synonyms: | copulation, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, reproduction, sexuality, birds and the bees, coition, coitus, facts of life, relations, sensuality |
| Notes: | gender is the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; sex is either of the two categories, male or female, into which most organisms are divided |
| Antonyms: | abstention, chastity |
| Main Entry: | terms |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | status of relationship |
| Synonyms: | balance, equality, equivalence, footing, par, parity, position, relationship, standing, relations |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealings*, doings*, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, patronage, relationship, soliciting, trade, truck*, dealing, merchantry, peddling, relations, transactions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propinquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | kinship |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, connection, consanguinity, kin, relationship, relations |
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity |
| Synonyms: | alliance, analogy, association, closeness, connection, correspondence, kinship, likeness, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, similitude, alikeness |
| Antonyms: | dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, friendship, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union, confederation, fraternization, interrelation, mutuality |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war, disunion |
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