a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)

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

a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)

make a logical or causal connection

be in a relationship with

anything owned or possessed

a relation between living organisms (especially between people)

the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others

the relation between causes and effects