Word Meanings - RELATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended

Additional info about word: RELATION

1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. 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. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things, or any comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation. I. Taylor. 3. Reference; respect; regard. I have been importuned to make some observations on this art in relation to its agreement with poetry. Dryden. 4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton. 5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman. For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. Ld. Lytton. 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. The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. Wharton. Burrill. Syn. -- Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale; detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity; affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELATION)

• Account
• Narration
• report
• rehearsal
• story
• statement
• narrative
• recital
• relation
• description
• motive
• value
• importance
• advantage
• ground
• reason
• profit
• Affinity
• Relationship
• kindred
• conformity
• connection
• alliance
• similarity
• analogy
• homogeneity
• harmony
• correlativeness
• sympathy
• interdependence
• interconnection
• intercommunity
• Alliance
• Compact
• treaty
• cooperation
• union
• partnership
• league
• combination
• coalition
• confederation
• friendship
• relationship
• Analogy
• Relation
• resemblance
• proportion
• similitude
• coincidence
• affinity
• comparison
• parity
• Connection
• Junction
• junction
• association
• concatenation
• relevance
• intercourse
• communication
• Unarm an

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RELATION)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to RELATION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• HOMOGENEITY
  See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• CONFEDERATION
  1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• PROFIT
  1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.