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Textual thesaurus for "relation"

(noun) intercourse, congress, copulation, coition, coitus, carnal knowledge, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation

the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur


(noun) relation back

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time

his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed


(noun) telling, recounting

an act of narration

he was the hero according to his own relation; his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable


(noun) relative

a person related by blood or marriage

police are searching for relatives of the deceased; he has distant relations back in New Jersey