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- pronunciation:
- re
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tihv
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
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When someone is your relative, they are part of your family. People like your mother, father, sister, and brother are your very close relatives. Other relatives are people like your aunt, uncle, cousins, and grandparents.
Many of Lena's relatives, including her aunt, uncle, and grandparents, came to her house for Thanksgiving dinner this year.- similar words:
- relation
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brother, family, people |
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adjective |
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When you look tall relative to someone who is shorter than you, it means that you look tall when you are compared with someone who is shorter.
My sister plays the piano pretty well, but relative to my mom, she is not very good at all. My mom is really great.How large something looks to you is relative to how far away it is. A big house looks very small if you see it from an airplane in the sky.- synonyms:
- dependent
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