relative vs person

person vs relative

relative and person both are nouns.

relative is an adjective but person is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
relative	Yes	Yes	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, person is a hypernym of relative; that is, person is a word with a broader meaning than relative:

relative: a person related by blood or marriage
person: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

Other hypernyms of relative include individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul.

relative (noun)	person (noun)
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a person related by blood or marriage	a human body (usually including the clothing)
	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

relative (adjective)	person (adjective)
estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

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