relationship

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Etymology

From relation +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp/

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• Hyphenation: re‧la‧tion‧ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
3. A romantic or sexual involvement.
4. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other

   I have a good working relationship with my boss.

   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”:

     “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.

5. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Translations

connection or association

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: علاقة (ar) (ʕalāqa) f
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: rellación (ast) f
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: relació (ca) f
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關係 (cmn), 关系 (cmn) (guānxi)

• Czech: vztah (cs)
• Danish: forhold (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: verwantschap (nl) n
• Finnish: suhde (fi), yhteys (fi)
• French: rapport (fr) m
• Galician: relación (gl) f
• German: Beziehung (de) f, Verwandtschaft (de) f
• Greek: σχέση (el) (schési) f 
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kapcsolat (hu)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: relasi (id), hubungan (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: baint (ga) f
• Italian: rapporto (it) m
• Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei)
• Khmer: ការទាក់ទង (km) (kaa teak tɔɔng), ការទាក់ទងគ្នា (km) (kaa teak tɔɔng knie)

• Korean: 관계 (ko) (gwan-gye) (關係 (ko))
• Macedonian: врска (mk) (v'rska) f, однос (mk) (ódnos) m
• Malay: hubungan (ms)
• Malayalam: ബന്ധം (ml) (bandham)
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhold (no) n

  Nynorsk: forhold (nn) n

• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: związek (pl) m, powiązanie (pl) f, relacja (pl) f, stosunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: relacionamento (pt) m, relação (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: relație (ro) f, legătură (ro) f, raport (ro) n,, asociere (ro)
• Russian: отношение (ru) (otnošénije) n , взаимоотношение (ru) n (vzaimootnošenije), взаимосвязь (ru) f (vzaimosvjazʹ), касательство (ru) n (kasatelʹstvo), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dàimh (gd) m and f
• Spanish: relación (es) f
• Swahili: husiano (sw)
• Swedish: förhållande (sv) n
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: సంబంధము (te) (sambandhamu)
• Thai: สัมพันธไมตรี (th) (săm-pan-tá-mai-dtree)
• Turkish: ilişki (tr), bağlantı (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can

kinship

• Arabic: صلة (ar) (ṣíla) f, علاقة (ar) (ʿalāqa) f
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關係 (cmn), 关系 (cmn) (guānxi)

• Czech: příbuznost (cs), příbuzenství (cs)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sukulaisuus, sukulaisuussuhde
• French: relation (fr) f
• Georgian: ნათესაობა (ka) (nat'esaoba) 
• German: Verwandtschaft (de) f
• Greek: συγγένεια (el) (syngéneia)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: rokonság (hu)

• Irish: gaol (ga) m
• Italian: parentela (it) f
• Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei)
• Khmer: ញាតិភាព (km) (ñiet pʰiep), ញាតិវង្ស (km) (ñiet vɔǝng)
• Macedonian: сродство (mk) (sródstvo) n
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: pokrewieństwo (pl) n
• Romanian: rudenie (ro) f, înrudire (ro) f
• Russian: родство (ru) (rodstvó) n 
• Scottish Gaelic: dàimh (gd) m and f, càirdeas (gd) m
• Telugu: బంధుత్వము (te) (bandhutvamu)
• Turkish: akrabalık (tr), hısımlık (tr), karabet (tr)

romantic or sexual involvement

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (romantic relationship) 情愛關係, 情爱关系 (qíng'ài guānxi), (sexual relationship) 性關係 (cmn), 性关系 (cmn) (xìngguānxi)

• Czech: vztah (cs)
• Esperanto: amrilato (eo)
• Finnish: suhde (fi)
• French: relation (fr) f
• German: Beziehung (de) f
• Greek: σχέση (el) (schési)
• Hungarian: kapcsolat (hu), párkapcsolat (hu)
• Irish: baint (ga) f
• Italian: storia (it)

• Macedonian: врска (mk) (v'rska) f
• Marathi: संबध (sambandh)
• Polish: stosunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: relacionamento (pt)
• Romanian: relație (ro) n, legătură (ro) f
• Russian: роман (ru) (román) m , интрига (ru) (intríga) f , любовные отношения (ru) (ljubóvnyje otnošénija) n pl 
• Spanish: relación (es) f
• Swedish: förhållande (sv) n
• Telugu: సంబంధము (sambandhamu)
• Turkish: ilişki (tr)

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative