relation

Meanings

Noun

• an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• 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
• a person related by blood or marriage
  • "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
• an act of narration
  • "he was the hero according to his own relation"
• (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"
• (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
  • "international relations"

Synonyms

carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, recounting, relation back, relative, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, telling