FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family relationship mean? 

• FAMILY RELATIONSHIP (noun)
  The noun FAMILY RELATIONSHIP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FAMILY RELATIONSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY RELATIONSHIP (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

family relationship; kinship; relationship

Hypernyms ("family relationship" is a kind of...):

relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)

Domain category:

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family relationship"):

affinity; phylogenetic relation ((biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts)

brotherhood (the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings)

sisterhood; sistership (the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings)

maternity; motherhood (the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother)

fatherhood; paternity (the kinship relation between an offspring and the father)

birth; parentage (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)

blood kinship; cognation; consanguinity ((anthropology) related by blood)

affinity ((anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship)

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)

marital bed; marital relationship (the relationship between wife and husband)