RELATIVE
\ɹˈɛlətˌɪv], \ɹˈɛlətˌɪv], \ɹ_ˈɛ_l_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of RELATIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
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not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
By Princeton University
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an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
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not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
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Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
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Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
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Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
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One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
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A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
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A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives who, which, that.
By Oddity Software
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Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
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Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
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Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
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Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
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One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
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A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
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A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives who, which, that.
By Noah Webster.
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A person connected with another by blood or marriage; a word which refers to an antecedent; as, the pronouns who, which, that, are relatives.
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Having or expressing connection with, or reference to, something; as, their conversation was relative to business; comparative; as, the relative value of two things; having meaning only in connection with something else; as, mother and daughter are relative terms; in grammar, referring to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
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Relatively.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Relatively.
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Having relation: respecting: not absolute or existing by itself: considered as belonging to something else: (gram.) expressing relation.
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That which has relation to something else: a relation: (gram.) a pronoun which relates to something before, called its antecedent.
By Daniel Lyons
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Relatively.
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A relative word.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Having relation; respecting; considered in reference to something else.
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That which has relation; in gram. Pronoun relating to an antecedent noun.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Having, or implying, relation; having relation to something else; relating to a word, sentence, or clause incident to man in society.
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A person connected by blood or affinity; a kinsman or kinswoman; that which has relation to something else; a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Respecting; having reference to; not absolute or existing by itself; incident to man in society, as rights or duties; particular.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Having relation; respecting;—bearing on the subject in hand; pertinent;—arising from or dependent on relation or connection with something else; not self-existing; not absolute;—mutual : reciprocal;—in logic, Indicating a correlation —said terms, as master and servant, indicating and wife : —in grammar, noting a relation or reference to an antecedent word, sentence, or series of sentences.
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n. A person connected by blood or affinity; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman;—a word relating to or used in the place of an antecedent word, clause, sentence, or paragraph.
