relationship
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
relationship/rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp/
▶noun
- 1 the way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.
■ the way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other.
- 2 an emotional and sexual association between two people.
'relationship' also found in these Oxford entries:
adoptive
- adulterine
- advance
- affinal
- affinity
- alliance
- apposition
- at
- Atlanticism
- attachment
- avunculate
- baby
- between
- blow
- bond
- boyfriend
- break
- break-up
- brotherhood
- cash nexus
- casual
- causality
- causation
- cause
- characteristic curve
- chuck
- cladogram
- cohabit
- coherent
- commit
- common law
- communion
- companionate
- compare
- compatible
- configuration
- conjugal
- connection
- constant
- consummate
- contact
- coordinate
- correlate
- correlation
- couply
- covenant
- cradle-snatcher
- crucible
- dalliance
- dally
