Word relationships antonyms and synonyms

synonyms for relationship

  • accord
  • affair
  • communication
  • contact
  • exchange
  • liaison
  • link
  • marriage
  • rapport
  • relation
  • tie
  • affiliation
  • affinity
  • alliance
  • analogy
  • appositeness
  • association
  • bond
  • conjunction
  • consanguinity
  • contingency
  • correlation
  • dependence
  • dependency
  • homogeneity
  • hookup
  • interconnection
  • interrelation
  • interrelationship
  • kinship
  • likeness
  • nearness
  • network
  • parallel
  • pertinence
  • pertinency
  • proportion
  • ratio
  • relativity
  • relevance
  • similarity
  • tie up
  • tie-in
  • consociation

On this page you’ll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to relationship, such as: accord, affair, communication, contact, exchange, and liaison.

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WORDS RELATED TO RELATIONSHIP

  • awareness
  • cognizance
  • conversance
  • familiarity
  • fellowship
  • grasp
  • intimacy
  • ken
  • relationship
  • understanding
  • affair
  • carrying-on
  • cheating
  • extracurricular activity
  • fling
  • fornication
  • hanky-panky
  • immorality
  • infidelity
  • matinee
  • playing around
  • relationship
  • thing
  • two-timing
  • affaire
  • amour
  • carrying-on
  • extracurricular activity
  • fling
  • goings-on
  • hanky-panky
  • intimacy
  • intrigue
  • liaison
  • love
  • playing around
  • relationship
  • rendezvous
  • romance
  • thing together
  • two-timing
  • alliance
  • amalgamation
  • banding together
  • bunch
  • cahoots
  • clan
  • coalition
  • combination
  • confederation
  • conjunction
  • connection
  • crew
  • crowd
  • gang
  • hookup
  • incorporation
  • joining
  • league
  • merging
  • mob
  • outfit
  • partnership
  • relationship
  • ring
  • syndicate
  • tie-in
  • union
  • alliances
  • amalgamations
  • banding togethers
  • bunches
  • cahoots
  • clans
  • coalitions
  • combinations
  • confederations
  • conjunctions
  • connections
  • crews
  • crowds
  • gangs
  • hookups
  • incorporations
  • joinings
  • leagues
  • mergings
  • mobs
  • outfits
  • partnerships
  • relationships
  • rings
  • syndicates
  • tie-ins
  • unions
  • alikeness
  • alliance
  • analogy
  • association
  • closeness
  • connection
  • correspondence
  • kinship
  • likeness
  • relation
  • relationship
  • resemblance
  • semblance
  • similitude

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1

as in kinship

the fact or state of having something in common

studied the relationship between the phases of the moon and ocean tides


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2

as in partnership

the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)

the street’s shopkeepers have a good business relationship


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Every teacher wonders how to teach a word to students, so that it stays with them and they can actually use it in the context in an appropriate form. Have your students ever struggled with knowing what part of the speech the word is (knowing nothing about terminologies and word relations) and thus using it in the wrong way? What if we start to teach learners of foriegn languages the basic relations between words instead of torturing them to memorize just the usage of the word in specific contexts?

Let’s firstly try to recall what semantic relations between words are. Semantic relations are the associations that exist between the meanings of words (semantic relationships at word level), between the meanings of phrases, or between the meanings of sentences (semantic relationships at phrase or sentence level). Let’s look at each of them separately.

Word Level

At word level we differentiate between semantic relations:

  • Synonyms — words that have the same (or nearly the same) meaning and belong to the same part of speech, but are spelled differently. E.g. big-large, small-tiny, to begin — to start, etc. Of course, here we need to mention that no 2 words can have the exact same meaning. There are differences in shades of meaning, exaggerated, diminutive nature, etc. 
  • Antonyms — semantic relationship that exists between two (or more) words that have opposite meanings. These words belong to the same grammatical category (both are nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.). They share almost all their semantic features except one. (Fromkin & Rodman, 1998) E.g.
    4 Skyteach
  • Homonyms — the relationship that exists between two (or more) words which belong to the same grammatical category, have the same spelling, may or may not have the same pronunciation, but have different meanings and origins. E.g. to lie (= to rest) and to lie (= not to tell the truth); When used in a context, they can be misunderstood especially if the person knows only one meaning of the word.

Other semantic relations include hyponymy, polysemy and metonymy which you might want to look into when teaching/learning English as a foreign language.

At Phrase and Sentence Level

Here we are talking about paraphrases, collocations, ambiguity, etc.

  • Paraphrase — the expression of the meaning of a word, phrase or sentence using other words, phrases or sentences which have (almost) the same meaning. Here we need to differentiate between lexical and structural paraphrase. E.g.

    Lexical — I am tired = I am exhausted.
    Structural — He gave the book to me = He gave me the book.

  • Ambiguity — functionality of having two or more distinct meanings or interpretations. You can read more about its types here.
  • Collocations — combinations of two or more words that often occur together in speech and writing. Among the possible combinations are verbs + nouns, adjectives + nouns, adverbs + adjectives, etc. Idiomatic phrases can also sometimes be considered as collocations. E.g. ‘bear with me’, ‘round and about’, ‘salt and pepper’, etc.

So, what does it mean to know a word? 
Knowing a word means knowing all of its semantic relations and usages.

Why is it useful? 
It helps to understand the flow of the language, its possibilities, occurrences, etc.better.

Should it be taught to EFL learners? 
Maybe not in that many details and terminology, but definitely yes if you want your learners to study the language in depth, not just superficially.

How should it be taught?
Not as a separate phenomenon, but together with introducing a new word/phrase, so that students have a chance to create associations and base their understanding on real examples. You can give semantic relations and usages, ask students to look up in the dictionary, brainstorm ideas in pairs and so on.  

Let us know what you do to help your students learn the semantic relations between the words and whether it helps.

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  1. relationship

    Kind is broader than kin, denoting the most general relationship, as of the whole human species in mankind, humankind, etc.; kin and kindred denote direct relationship that can be traced through either blood or marriage, preferably the former; either of these words may signify collectively all persons of the same blood or members of the same family, relatives or relations. Affinity is relationship by marriage, consanguinity is relationship by blood. There are no true antonyms of kin or kindred, except those made by negatives, since strangers, aliens, foreigners, and foes may still be kin or kindred.

    Synonyms:
    affinity, alliance, birth, blood, consanguinity, descent, family, kin, kind, kindred, race

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  1. relationship, human relationshipnoun

    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)

    «the relationship between mothers and their children»

    Synonyms:
    family relationship, human relationship, kinship

  2. relationshipnoun

    a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)

    «he didn’t want his wife to know of the relationship»

    Synonyms:
    family relationship, human relationship, kinship

  3. relationshipnoun

    a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

    Synonyms:
    family relationship, human relationship, kinship

  4. kinship, family relationship, relationshipnoun

    (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

    Synonyms:
    affinity, family relationship, human relationship, kinship

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  1. List of paraphrases for «relationship»:

    relations, relation, relationships, link, connection, links, regard, ratio, linkage, interrelationship, correlation, reports, respect, report, no.2, linkages, ties, conjunction, intercourse, related, affairs, kinship, nexus, relating, rapport, no.

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  1. Beverley Mitchell:

    One of the things that made me super excited about joining( the movie) is its a different type of Christmas movie because its actually more focused on a mother-daughter relationship and a broken relationship, obviously theres the love aspect and theres the other side of it, but its more focused on these two women who kind of had a big falling outand are finding themselves back together years later especially with Ashlyn now being a mother of her own.

  2. Marygrace Berberian:

    Coloring itself cannot be called art therapy because art therapy relies on the relationship between the client and the therapist.

  3. Rick Smith:

    They didn’t hold me back, that was one of the life lessons that I took from my parents. I’m the only one that can hold me back from doing what I want to do. If I want to do something there is a way to do it whether it’s sports or a job or university or a relationship. I might have to take a different route. I might have to make some adjustments along the way. But if I truly have a passion for it, I truly have a calling to do it, it’s on my shoulders to be able to find a way to make it happen.

  4. Khloe Kardashian:

    Lamar and I loved each other deeply, and I don’t believe in just acting like that relationship never existed, things happened, but that doesn’t just stop me from caring about him or loving him.

  5. Hilal Ahmad Mir:

    Pakistan makes it easy for Kashmiris to get a visa, in some ways, Pakistan and India have a very good relationship. We have had a lot of damage. We want friendship, not guns.


Translations for relationship

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  • صلة, علاقةArabic
  • relacióCatalan, Valencian
  • příbuzenství, vztah, příbuznostCzech
  • forholdDanish
  • Verwandtschaft, BeziehungGerman
  • σχέση, συγγένειαGreek
  • amrilatoEsperanto
  • relaciónSpanish
  • ارتباطPersian
  • suhde, sukulaisuussuhde, yhteys, sukulaisuusFinnish
  • rapport, relationFrench
  • gaol, comhchaidreamh, baint, gaolmhaireachtIrish
  • dàimh, càirdeasScottish Gaelic
  • relaciónGalician
  • संबंधHindi
  • kapcsolat, párkapcsolat, rokonságHungarian
  • փոխհարաբերություն, հարաբերություններ, հարաբերությունArmenian
  • relasi, hubunganIndonesian
  • parentela, storia, rapportoItalian
  • יחסיםHebrew
  • 関係Japanese
  • ნათესაობაGeorgian
  • ញាតិភាព, ញាតិវង្ស, ការទាក់ទងគ្នា, ការទាក់ទងKhmer
  • 관계, 關係Korean
  • однос, врска, сродствоMacedonian
  • ബന്ധംMalayalam
  • संबध, नातेMarathi
  • hubunganMalay
  • အဆက်အသွယ်Burmese
  • verwantschapDutch
  • tilhøve, sambandNorwegian Nynorsk
  • forholdNorwegian
  • związek, relacja, powiązanie, stosunek, pokrewieństwoPolish
  • relacionamento, relação, parentescoPortuguese
  • asociere, legătură, înrudire, relație, rudenie, raportRomanian
  • связь, родство, любовные отношения, интрига, роман, касательство, взаимосвязь, взаимоотношение, отношениеRussian
  • förhållandeSwedish
  • husianoSwahili
  • బంధుత్వము, సంబంధముTelugu
  • สัมพันธไมตรีThai
  • karabet, bağlantı, ilişki, akrabalık, hısımlıkTurkish
  • liên hệ, quan hệVietnamese
  • שייכותYiddish
  • 关系Chinese

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  • relation

    connection, bond

  • kinship

    connection, association

  • connection

    bond, association

  • liaison

    affair, connection

  • correlation

    connection, relation

  • affinity

    kinship, connection

  • association

    relation, affiliation

  • link

    connect

  • alliance

    relation, combination

  • tie

    bond, kinship

  • interrelation

  • bond

    association

  • interconnection

    relation, connect

  • rapport

    association

  • consanguinity

    kinship, family ties

  • affiliation

    combination

  • ratio

    relation

  • affair

    romance

  • romance

    affair

  • amour

    affair

  • communication

  • tie-in

    connect

  • linkage

    bond, connect

  • tie-up

  • interrelationship

    connect

  • marriage

    combination

  • interdependence

    affiliation, contingency

  • parallel

  • similarity

  • union

    kinship, combination

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