family relationship

Other forms: family relationships

Definitions of family relationship

1. noun

   (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
   synonyms: kinship, relationship

   types:

   affinity, phylogenetic relation

   (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts

   descent, filiation, line of descent, lineage

   the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

   affinity

   (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship

   blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity

   (anthropology) related by blood

   birth, parentage

   the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

   fatherhood, paternity

   the kinship relation between an offspring and the father

   maternity, motherhood

   the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother

   sisterhood, sistership

   the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings

   brotherhood

   the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings

   marital bed, marital relationship

   the relationship between wife and husband

   steprelationship

   a family relationship by virtue of remarriage

   bilateral descent

   line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family

   unilateral descent

   line of descent traced through one side of the family

   type of:

   relation

   an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together