relevance
Syllables: rel·e·vance/ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/
relevance noun: the property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
Noun
relevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)
- The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
- Synonyms:
- bearing, pertinence, reference
relevance meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
relevance in Hindi
- property or state of being relevant, pertinency
- प्रासंगिकता prāsaṅgiktā
relevance in Bengali
- প্রাসঙ্গিকতা
relevance in Malayalam
- property or state of being relevant, pertinency
- പ്രസക്തി prasakti
relevance in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತತೆ, ಪ್ರಸಕ್ತತೆ
More languagesFewer languages
- relevance in Arabic
- عَلَاقَة ʕalāqa, صِلَة ṣila
- relevance in Malay
- kerelevanan
- relevance in Indonesian
- relevansi
Examples of relevance in a sentence
- Traditional values will always have a place—therefore, they will never lose relevance.
- The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
- The relevance of a document to a given search query can be guessed using the TF-IDF of each word they have in common.
Synonyms of relevance
Antonyms
Forms of relevance
| plural | relevances |
|---|---|
| alternative form | relevancy |
Origin of relevance
From relevant + -ance.
Words formed from relevance
Phrases with relevance
Questions about relevance
- What does relevance mean?
- Relevance means the property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
- What is relevance in Hindi?
- Relevance in Hindi is प्रासंगिकता (prāsaṅgiktā). See Relevance meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is relevance?
- Relevance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce relevance?
- Relevance is pronounced /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/.
- What is the plural of relevance?
- The plural of relevance is relevances.
Words near relevance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: relevance (page history and authors); relevance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); relevance (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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