Usually means: Family member connected by blood.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. relative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Relative, relative: Wordnik
  7. relative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. relative: Wiktionary
  9. relative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. relative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. relative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. relative: Dictionary.com
  13. relative (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. relative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Relative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. relative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. relative: Rhymezone
  19. relative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. relative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. relative: Free Dictionary
  22. relative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. relative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. relative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. relative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. relative: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RELATIVE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. relative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. relative: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relative: Idioms
  2. relative: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Relative: Physic and Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relative: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relative: Electronics
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
adjective:  (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
adjective:  (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
adjective:  (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
adjective:  (archaic or rare) Relevant; pertinent; related.
adjective:  Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
noun:  Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
noun:  (figurative) Something kindred or related to something else.
noun:  (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
adverb:  (US) Alternative form of relatively. [In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.]

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