Synonyms:
relationship, human_relationship
Meaning: a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness); "the relationship between mothers and their children"
Synonyms:
relationship
Meaning: a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"
Synonyms:
relationship
Meaning: a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
Usage examples
For he takes one thing as evidence of something else, and so recognizes a relationship.
And there must be some form of recognized relationship or control--that or complete promiscuity.
For the present, the term "dream censor" is no more than a very convenient phrase for a dynamic relationship.
It is no small sacrifice now for me, as a member of your Administration, to sever our political relationship.
Though both enjoy a moist peat soil, and have a near botanical relationship, they are incongruous in appearance, and impossible to group together for colour.
It had always seemed that she was to be allowed to come and go by reason of her relationship, but that she was to receive no special mark of confidence or affection.
When, however, we give up this one-sided ethical estimate, we shall surely be able to find a more accurate formula for the relationship of the evil to the good in human nature.
I would have been as much of a nonentity in every phase of human relationship by attempting to avoid alliances, as any man of the 20th Century would have been politically, who aligned himself with no political party.
Notwithstanding the difference between youth and age, he bore so strong a likeness to the old lady, that Oliver would have had no great difficulty in imagining their relationship, if he had not already spoken of her as his mother.
But for this purpose it need not be the same intellect in all intelligent beings; but it must be one in its relationship to all those things from which it abstracts the universal, with respect to which things the universal is one.