relation

relation is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
2. noun. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
3. noun. Reference; respect; regard.
4. noun. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
5. noun. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
6. noun. The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
7. noun. The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
8. noun. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
9. noun. (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups

   "international relations"

10. noun. the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

    Synonyms: coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse

11. noun. (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time

    "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed"

12. noun. an act of narration

    "he was the hero according to his own relation"

    "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

    Synonyms: recounting, telling

13. noun. a person related by blood or marriage

    "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"

    "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

    Synonyms: relative

Synonyms

coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, recounting, telling, relative

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in relation:

oriental, tirolean

Common word forms

relations, relational, relationless

Words from these letters

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