family relationship

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family relationship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoptionkinship, relationshiprelation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts togetheranthropology - the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beingsphylogenetic relation, affinity - (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans"filiation, line of descent, lineage, descent - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitorsaffinity - (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationshipblood kinship, consanguinity, cognation - (anthropology) related by bloodparentage, birth - the kinship relation of an offspring to the parentsfatherhood, paternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the fathermotherhood, maternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the mothersisterhood, sistership - the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblingsbrotherhood - the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblingsmarital bed, marital relationship - the relationship between wife and husband