relationship

relationship

English

Etymology

From relation +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃən.ʃɪp/, [ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃn̩.ʃɪp]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃənˌʃɪp/, [ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃn̩ˌʃɪp]

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• Hyphenation: re‧la‧tion‧ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
   • 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction‎, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102-103:

     But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.

2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
   • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.

3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.

   They have been in a relationship for ten years, but have never married.

   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other

   I have a good working relationship with my boss.

   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.

6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

connection or association

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: عَلَاقَة‎ f (ʿalāqa) Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հարաբերություն (hy) (haraberutʿyun), փոխհարաբերություն (hy) (pʿoxharaberutʿyun) Asturian: rellación (ast) f Azerbaijani: münasibət (az) Belarusian: адно́сіны f pl (adnósiny) Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: връзка (bg) f (vrǎzka), отношение (bg) n (otnošenie) Burmese: အဆက်အသွယ် (my) (a.hcak-a.swai) Catalan: relació (ca) f Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 關係／关系 (zh) (guānxi) Czech: vztah (cs) Danish: forhold n Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: verwantschap (nl) n Esperanto: rilato Finnish: suhde (fi), yhteys (fi) French: rapport (fr) m Galician: relación (gl) f Georgian: ურთიერთობა (urtiertoba) German: Beziehung (de) f, Verwandtschaft (de) f Greek: σχέση (el) f (schési) Gujarati: સંબંધ (sambandh) Hebrew: מערכת יחסים‎ Hindi: रिश्ता (hi) m (riśtā), संबंध (hi) m (sambandh) Hungarian: kapcsolat (hu), viszony (hu) Ido: relato (io) Indonesian: relasi (id), hubungan (id) Interlingua: relation, connexion Irish: baint f, comhchaidreamh m, gaolmhaireacht f Italian: rapporto (it) m, relazione (it) Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei) Kazakh: қарым-қатынас (qarym-qatynas), қарым-қатыс (qarym-qatys) Khmer: ការទាក់ទង (kaa teak tɔɔng), ការទាក់ទងគ្នា (kaa teak tɔɔng knie) Korean: 관계(關係) (ko) (gwan'gye) Ladino: alishik m, relasyón f Latin: necessitudo f Macedonian: врска f (vrska), однос m (odnos) Malay: hubungan (ms) Malayalam: ബന്ധം (ml) (bandhaṃ) Marathi: नाते (nāte) Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Nepali: सम्बन्ध (ne) (sambandha) Norwegian: Bokmål: forhold (no) n Nynorsk: tilhøve n, samband n Occitan: relacion (oc) f Oriya: please add this translation if you can Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: związek (pl) m, powiązanie (pl) f, relacja (pl) f, stosunek (pl) m Portuguese: relacionamento (pt) m, relação (pt) f Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can Romanian: relație (ro) f, legătură (ro) f, raport (ro) n,, asociere (ro) Russian: отноше́ние (ru) n (otnošénije), взаимоотношение (ru) n (vzaimootnošenije), взаимосвя́зь (ru) f (vzaimosvjázʹ), касательство (ru) n (kasatelʹstvo), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ) Scottish Gaelic: dàimh m or f Spanish: relación (es) f Swahili: uhusiano (sw), husiano Swedish: relation (sv) c, förhållande (sv) n Tagalog: kaugnayan, relasyon Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: సంబంధము (te) (sambandhamu) Thai: สัมพันธไมตรี (săm-pan-tá-mai-dtree) Turkish: ilişki (tr), bağlantı (tr) Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: відно́сини (vidnósyny), взаємовідно́сини (vzajemovidnósyny) Urdu: رِشْتِہ داری‎ f (riśtih dārī), رِشْتَہ‎ m (riśtah) (mainly between couples) Uzbek: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: liên hệ (vi) (聯繫) (informal), quan hệ (vi) (關係) (formal) Volapük: please add this translation if you can Walloon: please add this translation if you can

the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics

Bulgarian: отношение (bg) n (otnošenie) Maori: pānga

kinship

Arabic: صِلَة‎ f (ṣila), عَلَاقَة‎ f (ʿalāqa) Azerbaijani: qohumluq (az), əqrabalıq Bulgarian: роднинство n (rodninstvo) Chinese: Mandarin: 關係／关系 (zh) (guānxi) Czech: příbuznost, příbuzenství Danish: slægtskab n Esperanto: parenceco Finnish: sukulaisuus (fi), sukulaisuussuhde (fi) French: relation (fr) f Galician: parentesco (gl) m Georgian: ნათესაობა (natesaoba) German: Verwandtschaft (de) f Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰 f (sibja) Greek: συγγένεια (el) (syngéneia) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hindi: रिश्ता (hi) m (riśtā) Hungarian: rokonság (hu) Ido: parenteso (io) Irish: gaol m, gaolmhaireacht f Italian: parentela (it) f Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei) Khmer: ញាតិភាព (ñiet pʰiep), ញាតិវង្ស (ñiet vɔǝng) Latin: coniūnctiō (la) f Macedonian: сродство n (srodstvo) Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Nepali: नाता (nātā) Plautdietsch: Veheltniss n Polish: pokrewieństwo (pl) n Portuguese: parentesco (pt) m Romanian: rudenie (ro) f, înrudire (ro) f Russian: родство́ (ru) n (rodstvó) Scottish Gaelic: dàimh m or f, càirdeas m Swedish: släktskap (sv) n Telugu: బంధుత్వము (te) (bandhutvamu) Turkish: akrabalık (tr), hısımlık (tr), karabet (tr), kohumluk (tr) Ukrainian: спорі́дненість (sporídnenistʹ)

romantic or sexual involvement

Armenian: հարաբերություններ pl (haraberutʿyunner) Bulgarian: връзка (bg) f (vrǎzka) Chinese: Mandarin: (romantic relationship) 情愛關係／情爱关系 (qíng'ài guānxi), (sexual relationship) 性關係／性关系 (zh) (xìngguānxi) Czech: vztah (cs) Danish: forhold n Dutch: relatie (nl) f, verhouding (nl) f Esperanto: amrilato Faroese: samband (fo) n Finnish: suhde (fi) French: relation (fr) f Georgian: ურთიერთობა (urtiertoba) German: Beziehung (de) f, Verhältnis (de) n Greek: σχέση (el) (schési) Hungarian: kapcsolat (hu), párkapcsolat (hu), viszony (hu) Icelandic: samband (is) n Irish: baint f Italian: storia (it), legame (it), relazione (it) Macedonian: врска f (vrska) Marathi: संबंध (sambandha) Norwegian: forhold (no) Polish: stosunek (pl) m Portuguese: relacionamento (pt), relação (pt) f Romanian: relație (ro) n, legătură (ro) f Russian: рома́н (ru) m (román), интри́га (ru) f (intríga), любо́вные отноше́ния n pl (ljubóvnyje otnošénija) Serbo-Croatian: veza (sh) f Spanish: relación (es) f, noviazgo (es) Swedish: förhållande (sv) n, relation (sv) c Tagalog: relasyon Telugu: సంబంధము (te) (sambandhamu) Turkish: ilişki (tr) Ukrainian: відно́сини (vidnósyny)

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative