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| Main Entry: | relationship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection; friendship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, contact, contingency, correlation, dependency, exchange, homogeneity, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, marriage, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, similarity, tie, appositeness, consociation, dependence, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, pertinency, relativity, relevance, tie-in, tie-up |
| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge of something through experience |
| Synonyms: | awareness, cognizance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding, conversance |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | adultery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extramarital affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, cheating, extracurricular activity*, fling, fornication, hanky-panky*, infidelity, matinee*, relationship, thing*, two-timing, carrying on, immorality, playing around |
| Antonyms: | faithfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illicit sexual relationship |
| Synonyms: | amour, extracurricular activity*, fling, hanky-panky*, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, relationship, rendezvous, romance, two-timing, affaire, carrying on, goings-on, playing around, thing together |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association with an organization |
| Synonyms: | alliance, bunch, cahoots*, clan, coalition, combination, conjunction, connection, crew, crowd, gang, incorporation, league, mob, outfit, partnership, relationship, ring, syndicate, union, amalgamation, banding together, confederation, hookup, joining, merging, tie-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity |
| Synonyms: | alliance, analogy, association, closeness, connection, correspondence, kinship, likeness, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, similitude, alikeness |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Antonyms: | dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | amour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | romance |
| Synonyms: | affair, entanglement, liaison, love, love affair, passion, relationship |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | analogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, comparison, correlation, correspondence, equivalence, likeness, metaphor, parallel, relation, relationship, resemblance, semblance, simile, similitude, alikeness, homology |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | association |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affiliation, agreement, assistance, camaraderie, companionship, conjunction, cooperation, familiarity, fellowship, friendliness, intimacy, membership, participation, partnership, relation, relationship, acquaintanceship, comradeship, fraternization, frequenting, hookup |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, isolation, opposition, rivalry, seclusion, separation, solitude, aloneness, disunion |
| Main Entry: | belonging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sense of security in friendship |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, affinity, association, attachment, inclusion, kinship, loyalty, rapport, relationship |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, insecurity |
| Main Entry: | bond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, relation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, attachment, connection, friendship, liaison, link, marriage, network, obligation, relationship, restraint, tie, union, connective, hookup, interrelationship, tie-in |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that communicates, relates |
| Synonyms: | affinity, application, association, bearing, bond, commerce, communication, correlation, correspondence, intercourse, kinship, link, marriage, nexus, partnership, reciprocity, relation, relationship, togetherness, interrelation, relevance, tie-in |
| Main Entry: | correlation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equating, equivalence |
| Synonyms: | alternation, complement, correspondence, correspondent, counterpart, interaction, interchange, match, parallel, reciprocity, relationship, analogue, interconnection, interdependence, interrelation, interrelationship, pendant |
| Antonyms: | difference, disconnection, imbalance, disassociation |
| Main Entry: | dalliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, fling, hanky-panky*, relationship, seduction, a little on the side, amorous play, carrying on, fooling around, frolicking, messing around, toying, working late at office |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | blood, extraction, family, family tree, genealogy, heredity, lineage, origin, pedigree, relationship, parentage |
| 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: | 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: | kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinship, lineage, member, people, race, relation, relationship, sibling, stock, tribe, kinsfolk, kinsperson, kith |
| Main Entry: | kindred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, family, flesh, folk, house, kin, lineage, race, relation, relationship, stock, tribe, homefolk, kinsfolk, kinsperson |
| Main Entry: | link |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | component, connection |
| Synonyms: | articulation, association, attachment, bond, channel, constituent, contact, division, element, fastening, hitch, intersection, joint, junction, knot, ligature, loop, member, network, nexus, part, piece, relationship, ring, seam, section, splice, tie, weld, yoke, connective, copula, coupler, coupling, hookup, in, interconnection, interface, joining, ligament, ligation, tie-up, vinculum |
| Antonyms: | whole |
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