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) | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together |
| (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups |
| sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur |
| (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time |
| an act of narration |
| a person related by blood or marriage |