relative
Other forms: relatives
A relative is a person who is part of your family. Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews — they're all relatives.
A relative can be connected to your family through blood or by marriage. If you are a child or grandchild of Maria's, for example, you are a blood relative of her family. If you marry Maria's son, you become a relative by marriage. Relative is also an adjective that means "estimated by comparison," like the steep hill that is tiny, relative to the mountain behind it.
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estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete“a relative stranger”synonyms: comparativerelationalhaving a relation or being related
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properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'
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a person related by blood or marriage“police are searching for relatives of the deceased”synonyms: relationtypes:ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, rootsomeone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sibone related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with anotherkinsmana male relativekinswomana female relativekissing cousin, kissing kina more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kissnext of kinthe person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given personsecond cousina child of your parent's first cousinaffine(anthropology) kin by marriageancestressa woman ancestorbabythe youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)bastard, by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoresonthe illegitimate offspring of unmarried parentsbigamistsomeone who marries one person while already legally married to anotherbrother-in-lawa brother by marriagechilda member of a clan or tribeconsortthe husband or wife of a reigning monarchdaughter-in-lawthe wife of your sonfather-in-lawthe father of your spousefemale siblinga person's sisterforemothera woman ancestorgrandchilda child of your son or daughterhalf bloodone of siblings who have only one parent in commonmale siblinga sibling who is malemother-in-lawthe mother of your spousenephewa son of your brother or sisterniecea daughter of your brother or sisterpolygamistsomeone who is married to two or more people at the same timesciona descendent or heirsister-in-lawthe sister of your spouseson-in-lawthe husband of your daughtertripletone of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancytwineither of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancyunclethe brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
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an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric
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