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RELATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relations mean? 

RELATIONS (noun)
  The noun RELATIONS has 1 sense:

1. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groupsplay

  Familiarity information: RELATIONS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELATIONS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

dealings; relations

Hypernyms ("relations" is a kind of...):

social relation (a relation between living organisms (especially between people))


 Context examples 


I knew you would be: you will get on whether your relations notice you or not.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There (holding out the paper to her); much good may such fine relations do you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"This Rook is poor and hasn't got any rich relations, has he?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, and your relations to her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The breaking down of discipline likewise affected the dogs in their relations with one another.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He knew of no one but Mrs. Goddard to whom he could apply for information of her relations or friends.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"They had already spent a week in this manner in Conduit Street, and Lady Middleton could not be displeased at their giving the same number of days to such near relations."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

How came they both to be so keen upon looking up Ralph Smith’s relations?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A number that identifies the ordering relations (in time, space, etc.) in a set of pharmacokinetic concentration data.

(Pharmacokinetic Concentration Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment.

(Ecology, NCI Thesaurus)



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