S: (n) relative, relation (a person related by blood or marriage) "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
W: (n) relationship [Related to: relation] (a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)) "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
W: (n) relationship [Related to: relation] ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
W: (n) relationship [Related to: relation] (a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)) "the relationship between mothers and their children"
S: (n) relation, telling, recounting (an act of narration) "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"
S: (n) relation back, relation ((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"
S: (n) relation ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups) "international relations"