relations Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups
    dealings.
  2. noun an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
    relation.
  3. noun 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
    congress; intercourse; sexual intercourse; sex act; sexual relation; carnal knowledge; sexual congress; relation; copulation; coitus; coition.
  4. noun a person related by blood or marriage
    relative; relation.
    • police are searching for relatives of the deceased
    • he has distant relations back in New Jersey
  5. noun an act of narration
    telling; recounting; relation.
    • he was the hero according to his own relation
    • his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable
  6. noun (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
    relation; relation back.
    • his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed
  7. noun (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
    relation.
    • international relations

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