Word.ws English Dictionary

blood relative

blood relative noun: a person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.

Noun

blood relative (plural blood relatives)

  1. A person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
    Synonyms:
    blood relation

Synonyms of blood relative

Forms of blood relative

pluralblood relatives

Questions about blood relative

What does blood relative mean?
Blood relative means a person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
What part of speech is blood relative?
Blood relative is a noun.
What is the plural of blood relative?
The plural of blood relative is blood relatives.

Words near blood relative in the dictionary

  1. blood reds
  2. blood relation
  3. blood relations
  4. blood relationship
  5. blood relationships
  6. blood relative
  7. blood relatives
  8. blood replacement
  9. blood replacements
  10. blood royal
  11. blood royals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blood relative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “blood relative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/blood_relative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.