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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)

  1. (usually) The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.

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
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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.

All 40 example sentences with relevance

Synonyms of relevance

Antonyms

Forms of relevance

pluralrelevances
alternative formrelevancy

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

  1. relettered
  2. relettering
  3. reletters
  4. reletting
  5. relettings
  6. relevance
  7. relevance conditional
  8. relevance conditionals
  9. relevance logic
  10. relevance logics
  11. relevances

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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