family relationship

Questions about family relationship

What does family relationship mean?

family relationship means "(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption".

What is another word for family relationship?

Close synonyms include kinship, relationship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family relationship a common word?

family relationship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.