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relations
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun relations has 1 sense
- relations(n = noun.linkdef) dealings - mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups; Array is a kind of social relation
THESAURUS
relations
accord, act of love, addition, adjunct, adultery, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agnate, alliance, ancestry, aphrodisia, approximation, ass, assemblage, association, balling, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bond, carnal knowledge, circumstances, clansman, climax, closeness, cognate, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, collateral, collateral relative, combination, commerce, concerns, condition of things, conditions, congress, connectedness, connection, connections, consanguinean, contiguity, contrariety, copula, copulation, coupling, dealings, deduction, diddling, disjunction, distaff side, distant relation, doings, enate, family, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, fornication, german, goings-on, homology, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, liaison, life, link, linkage, linking, lovemaking, making it with, march of events, marital relations, marriage act, mating, matters, meat, mutual attraction, near relation, nearness, next of kin, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, people, posterity, proceedings, procreation, propinquity, proximity, rapport, relatedness, relation, relationship, relatives, run of things, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sib, sibling, similarity, sleeping with, spear kin, spear side, sperm, spindle kin, spindle side, state of affairs, sword side, sympathy, the times, the world, tie, tie-in, tribesman, union, uterine kin, venery, what happens
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