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Kinswoman

A female relative.

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Aunt 76% connected

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

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Auntie 76% connected

Alt. of Aunty

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Aunty 76% connected

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

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Niece 76% connected

A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Relative 76% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Agnate noun · 86% connection

one related on the father's side

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Ancestor noun · 86% connection

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Antecedent noun · 86% connection

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Ascendant noun · 86% connection

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Ascendent noun · 86% connection

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

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Cognate noun · 86% connection

one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another

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Cousin noun · 86% connection

the child of your aunt or uncle

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Cousin-german noun · 86% connection

the child of your aunt or uncle

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Descendant noun · 86% connection

a person considered as descended from some ancestor

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Descendent noun · 86% connection

a person considered as descended from some ancestor

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Enate noun · 86% connection

one related on the mother's side

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Family noun · 86% connection

a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

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Issue noun · 86% connection

the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

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kin noun · 86% connection

a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

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Kinsman noun · 86% connection

a male relative

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Mate noun · 86% connection

a person's partner in marriage

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Offspring noun · 86% connection

the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

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Partner noun · 86% connection

a person's partner in marriage

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Aerodynamic force noun · 78% connection

forces acting on airfoils in motion relative to the air (or other gaseous fluids)

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Amazon noun · 78% connection

One of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior.

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Brightness level noun · 78% connection

the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun"

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Configuration noun · 78% connection

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

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D unknown · 78% connection

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

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Date of reference noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is…

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Daughter noun · 78% connection

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

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Derived function noun · 78% connection

the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

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Diabetes mellitus noun · 78% connection

diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…

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Differential coefficient noun · 78% connection

the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

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DM noun · 78% connection

diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…

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Doe noun · 78% connection

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

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Einstein's theory of relativity noun · 78% connection

(physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts

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