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Etymology

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Fromrelation +‎-ship.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃənˌʃɪp/,[ɹɪˈleɪ.ʃn̩ˌʃɪp]
  • Audio(US):(file)
  • Hyphenation:re‧la‧tion‧ship

Noun

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relationship (pluralrelationships)

  1. Connection orassociation; the condition of beingrelated.
    • 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.,The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction‎[1],Wesleyan University Press,→ISBN, pages102–103:
      But some discussion of the complexrelationship 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”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      Policing therelationship 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 byblood ormarriage.
  4. Aromantic orsexualinvolvement.
    They have been in arelationship for ten years, but have never married.
    • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, “Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty”, inThe Lebanon Daily News:
      I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexualrelationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.
    • 2000 April 8, Dorthea Straus, “Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy”, inThe Baltimore Sun:
      Her most satisfying sexualrelationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.
    • 2021 July 20, Sarah Molano, “Most romantic relationships start as friendships, study finds”, inCNN‎[2]:
      Contrary to the popular perception that love typically sparks from passion, a new study finds two-thirds of romanticrelationships begin as long-term friendships.
    • 2025 August 13, Müjdat Erarkadaş, Kübra Özmeral Erarkadaş, Şahika Gülen Şişmanlar, “Autism Spectrum Disorder Beyond Childhood: A Comprehensive Assessment of Activities of Daily Living and Social Functioning in Turkish Adults”, inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders‎[3],→DOI:
      Only 25.3% of our participants had a social peer group, and just 3.4% had ever been in a romanticrelationship. None were currently in arelationship or married.
  5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
    I have a good workingrelationship 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 fromThe 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 theirrelationship.
  6. (music) Thelevel ordegree ofaffinity betweenkeys,chords andtones.

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Translations

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connection or association
the connection between ordered pairs of numbers in mathematics
kinship
The way in which people behave and are involved with each other
romantic or sexual involvement
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