Definitions for relatives

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relatives rel·a·tive

Spelling: [rel-uh-tiv]

IPA: /ˈrɛl ə tɪv/

Relatives is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 727 anagrams from letters in relatives (aeeilrstv).

Definitions for relatives

noun

1. a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
2. something having, or standing in, some relation or connection to something else.
3. something dependent upon external conditions for its specific nature, size, etc. (opposed to absolute).
4. Grammar. a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb.

adjective

1. considered in relation to something else; comparative:
2. existing or having its specific nature only by relation to something else; not absolute or independent:
3. having relation or connection.
4. having reference or regard; relevant; pertinent (usually followed by to):
5. correspondent; proportionate:
6. (of a term, name, etc.) depending for significance upon something else:
7. Grammar. noting or pertaining to a word that introduces a subordinate clause of which it is, or is a part of, the subject or predicate and that refers to an expressed or implied element of the principal clause (the antecedent), as the relative pronoun who in He's the man who saw you or the relative adverb where in This is the house where she was born. noting or pertaining to a relative clause.

Origin of relatives

1350-1400; Middle English relatif (noun) (Middle French) Late Latin relātīvus (adj.); see relate, -ive

Examples for relatives

Other relatives followed, and then most of the members of Parliament.

Perhaps you feel that a Parisian adventure mightn't please your—your relatives?

But there over the mountains you have relatives, and you must return to them.

That is why I visited my relatives in Iran in 2011, when I was unjustly arrested and charged with espionage.

Don't you think your relatives——Aren't you expected to go with Mildred—and Mrs. Palmer?

They began exchanging letters and she developed a relationship with his relatives on the outside.

The government should be asking the relatives of Alan Turing to pardon them for treating him so appallingly!

So where does this leave the millions of Palestinians—like my relatives—who dream of self-determination and a sovereign state?

It is rather remarkable that so few of the letters are addressed to his own relatives.

He called for the homes of their families to be leveled “to the ground” and their relatives to be exiled from Chechnya.