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HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between people; ('relationship' is often used where 'relation' would serve, as in 'the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of 'relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
Example:
the relationship between mothers and their children
Synonyms:
human relationship; relationship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("human relationship" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human relationship"):
partnership (a cooperative relationship between people or groups who agree to share responsibility for achieving some specific goal)
personal relation; personal relationship (a relation between persons)
