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noun
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a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
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something having, or standing in, some relation to something else.
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adjective
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considered in relation to something else; comparative: the relative merits of democracy and monarchy.
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existing or having its specific nature only by relation to something else; not absolute or independent: Happiness is relative.
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having relation or connection.
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having reference or regard; relevant; pertinent (usually followed by to): to determine the facts relative to an accident.
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EXPANDcorrespondent; proportionate: Value is relative to demand.
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(of a term, name, etc.) depending for significance upon something else: “Better” is a relative term.
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COLLAPSEGrammar.
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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.
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noting or pertaining to a relative clause.
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Word Origin & History
relative
1388, "a relative pronoun," from O.Fr. relatif (13c.), from L.L. relativus "having reference or relation," from L. relatus, pp. of referre "to refer." Meaning "person in the same family" first recorded 1657; the adj. is attested from 1530. Relatively "in relation to something else" is recorded from 1561.
EXPANDRelativism in philosophy first recorded 1865 (relativist is from 1863).
COLLAPSE
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