RELATE meaning: Establish or demonstrate a connection

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word relate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

relate: Merriam-Webster.com
relate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
relate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
relate: Collins English Dictionary
relate: Vocabulary.com
Relate, relate: Wordnik
relate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
relate: Wiktionary
relate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
relate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
relate: Infoplease Dictionary
relate: Dictionary.com
relate: Online Etymology Dictionary
relate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Relate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Relate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
relate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
relate: Rhymezone
relate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
relate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
relate: Free Dictionary
relate: Mnemonic Dictionary
relate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
relate: Dictionary/thesaurus
relate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

relate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

relate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

relate: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To have a connection.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To interact.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, with to) To identify with; to understand.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

Similar:

refer, connect, tie in, pertain, interrelate, associate, link, concern, touch on, touch, more...

Opposite:

disconnect, dissociate, separate, alienate, isolate

Types:

love, hate, like, dislike, friendship, more...

Phrases:

relate to, to relate one's self, to relate ones self, list or relate fully, not relate, more...

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, orange, red, more...

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