relatives

Noun

relative (plural relatives)

1. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
   • The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii
2. (figuratively) Something kindred or related to something else.

   Synonyms:

   cousin

3. A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

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