relationship

Other forms of relationship

plural

relationships·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about relationship

What does relationship mean?

relationship means "a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in relationship?

relationship has 4 syllables: re-la-tion-ship. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ɹiˈleɪʃənˌʃɪp/.

What is another word for relationship?

Close synonyms include human relationship, kinship, family 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 relationship a common word?

relationship is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with relationship?

54 words rhyme with relationship. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.