Noun

• S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
• S: (n) sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
• S: (n) relative, relation (a person related by blood or marriage)
• S: (n) relation, telling, recounting (an act of narration)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) narration, recital, yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)
• S: (n) report, account (the act of informing by verbal report)
• S: (n) informing, making known (a speech act that conveys information)
• S: (n) speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
• S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• 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)
• S: (n) relation ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups)