HUMAN RELATIONSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human relationship mean? 

• HUMAN RELATIONSHIP (noun)
  The noun HUMAN RELATIONSHIP has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: HUMAN RELATIONSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN RELATIONSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

human relationship; relationship

Context example:

the relationship between mothers and their children

Hypernyms ("human relationship" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human relationship"):

partnership (a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal)

personal relation; personal relationship (a relation between persons)

 Context examples 

What’s remarkable about the honeyguide-human relationship is that it involves free-living wild animals whose interactions with humans have probably evolved through natural selection, probably over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, says Spottiswoode, a specialist in bird behavioural ecology in Africa.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)