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Relationship

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Acquaintance 76% connected

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of…

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Acquaintanceship 76% connected

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.

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Affiliation 76% connected

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

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Affinity 76% connected

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradist…

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Assimilation 76% connected

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation…

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Association 76% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Brotherhood 76% connected

The state of being brothers or a brother.

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Cognation 76% connected

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

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Consanguinity 76% connected

The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral cons…

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Descent 76% connected

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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Fatherhood 76% connected

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

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Filiation 76% connected

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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Friendship 76% connected

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; fr…

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Lineage 76% connected

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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Maternity 76% connected

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

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Membership 76% connected

The state of being a member.

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Motherhood 76% connected

The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

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Parentage 76% connected

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…

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Partnership 76% connected

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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Paternity 76% connected

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

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Romance 76% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Sisterhood 76% connected

The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.

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Subjection 76% connected

The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

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Subjugation 76% connected

The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.

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Tie 76% connected

A knot; a fastening.

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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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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Relation 74% 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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Relation 74% 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 74% connected

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

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Relative 74% connected

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

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Kinship 92% connected

Family relationship.

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