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Relations

Definition: Relations

Relations

Noun

1. Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relations" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: Relations

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

A tedious pack of people who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Relations

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
RELAEnglishCommittee on External Economic RelationsEuropean Union
RELAFrenchCommission des relations économiques extérieuresEuropean Union

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Relations

Synonym: dealings (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Relations

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

News

Press secretary, public relations department, public relations man.

Sexuality

Sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Relations

Specialty definitions using "relations": Boltzmann relationsCommunity RelationsDentist-Patient Relations, DIRECTOR, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSemployee relations administrator, EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SPECIALISTFamily RelationsHospital-Patient Relationsindustrial relationsjaw relationslabor relations, labor relations representative, labour relationsMANAGER, LABOR RELATIONSphase relations, public relations officerSALES AGENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSvice president, industrial relations. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Relations" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (acquaintance, connections, dealings, intercourse, relationship).

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Modern Usage: Relations

DomainUsage

Screenplays

No sir, we are not relations. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

No, thank you. We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I understand you may have had sexual relations with my daughter before, but under our roof, it's my way or the Long Island Expressway! (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)

There is no one on deck 9 section 12 who does not know when you're having intimate relations. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

Communicating. Keeping up foriegn relations. You know, giving him the bird! (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash)

Lyrics

Darling, rich relations for a while ("Mama Can't Buy You Love"; performing artist: Elton John)

Human Relations ("Black or White"; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

My friends and relations would all frown upon it ("Factory Girl"; performing artist: The Roches)

Movie/TV Titles

Casual Relations (1973)

Dangerous Relations (1973)

Blood Relations (1969)

Private Relations (1968)

Intimate Relations (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Relations

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2001 Report on Management, Consulting, & Public Relations Services: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  • The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Management, Consulting, & Public Relations Services: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Management, Consulting and Public Relations Services in Asia (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Management, Consulting and Public Relations Services (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • From Barter to Slavery: The Economic Relations of Portuguese and Indians in the Settlement of Brazil, 1500-1580 (reference)

  • Harry S. Truman and the News Media: Contentious Relations, Belated Respect (reference)

  • The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem : Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952 (East Asia) (reference)

  • Stereoscopic Phenomena of Light and Sight: A Guide to the Practice of Steoscopic Photography and Its Relations to Binocular Vision (reference)

  • So Dearly Loved, So Much Admired: Letters to Hester Pitt, Lady Chatham, from Her Relations and Friends, 1744-1801 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • California Department Of Industrial Relations Biennial Report (reference)

  • Alberta Labour Relations Board Decisions Index (reference)

  • Symbiosis: A Journal Of Anglo-american Literary Relations (reference)

  • Development And Alumni Relations Report (reference)

  • Annual Report ; Council On Foreign Relations (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Managing Human Relations for Competitive Advantage in Indonesia (reference)

  • Blood Relations (reference)

  • Managing Human Relations for Competitive Advantage in Argentina (reference)

  • Principles/Practices of Self Relations Psychotherapy with Stephen Gilligan (reference)

  • How To Do Your Own PR -- For Profit and Pleasure (A Crash Course in Public Relations) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Relations

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Photo Album: Relations

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Indian Emigrant relations interpretative area along the Oregon Trail showing where the trail was located, Rock Springs Field Office.Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Location of original grave sites (remains have been relocated) at the Indian Emigrant relations interpretative area along the Oregon Trail, Rock Springs Field Office.Credit: Jerry Sintz.

[A burn patient receives physical therapy] Public Relations Office, Valley Forge General Hospital.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A Seafaring Doctor Calls On A Patient / Public Relations Division, U.S. Coast Guard.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Speaks with the Human Relations Council, at Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan, 2 July 1971. Photographed by PH2 Edward C. Mucma.Credit: NAVY.

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken during the later 1950s or the 1960s. It was printed as part of Skylark's public relations effort.Credit: NAVY.

Rich relations.Credit: Library of Congress.

Better relations through trade.Credit: Library of Congress.

Strained relations.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pictorial Research, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department, Munitions Building] / Signal Corps p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by BPR, Charles Ray..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Relations

AuthorQuotation

Arthur Schopenhauer

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Henry David Thoreau

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Karl Marx

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Mencius

The compass and square produce perfect circles and squares. By the sages, the human relations are perfectly exhibited.

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Relations

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

We will entirely remove from their bailiwicks, the relations of Gerard of Athee (so that in future they shall have no bailiwick in England); namely, Engelard of Cigogne, Peter, Guy, and Andrew of Chanceaux, Guy of Cigogne, Geoffrey of Martigny with his brothers, Philip Mark with his brothers and his nephew Geoffrey, and the whole brood of the same. (reference)

John Locke

1690

All which distinct powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Its last words are: corporate guilds for manufacture, patriarchal relations in agriculture. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The High Contracting Parties declare and place on record that they have taken note of the Treaty signed by the Government of the French Republic on July 17, 1918, with His Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco defining the relations between France and the Principality ARTICLE 437. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

There are already the special United States relations with Canada which I have just mentioned, and there are the special relations between the United States and the South American Republics. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Relations

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He knew of no one but Mrs. Goddard to whom he could apply for information of her relations or friends.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

To be on such intimate juggling relations with darkness is excellent for brigandage and admirable for the police.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

These relations of the sensible, visible to you through one form and to me through another, must be therefore the necessary qualities of beauty.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I lamented my own folly and willfulness in attempting a second voyage against the advice of all my friends and relations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Relations

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Delay having sexual relations as long as possible. (references)

Transmission of human papillomavirus (HPV) during sexual relations appears to be involved. (references)

Whether this is related to side effects, lack of spontaneity in sexual relations, or general loss of interest is unclear. (references)

Business

Environmental issues at times have strained US-China relations. (references)

In other areas, relations between the two churches are hostile. (references)

Industrial relations are good and the U.K. has a low strike record. (references)

Children

Dominica

The age of consent for sexual relations is 16 years. (references)

Angola

Sexual relations with a child between the ages of 12 and 17 can be considered sexual abuse. (references)

Philippines

The family court system expedites juvenile and domestic relations cases and serves to strengthen safeguards against the sale and trafficking of children abroad. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

However, in some areas relations between the two churches remained hostile. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The change corresponds with improving relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. (references)

Georgia

Stations desiring benefits and better working relations with authorities practiced self-censorship. (references)

Discrimination

Syria

In practice membership in the Ba'th Party or close familial relations with a prominent party member or powerful government official can be important for economic, social, or educational advancement. (references)

United Kingdom

The 1976 Race Relations Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, nationality, or national or ethnic origin and prohibits incitement to racial hatred; however, some groups continued to experience official and societal discrimination. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

Overall, relations are excellent. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

The human rights community reported that the Paniagua and Toledo administrations began improving government-civil society relations. (references)

Georgia

Parliament's Committee on Human Rights and Ethnic Relations and local human rights groups independently investigated claims of abuse. (references)

Mexico

For permission to visit prisoners in Oaxaca and Guerrero, the ICRC must apply on a case-specific basis to the Ministry of Foreign Relations. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

In some areas, such as in certain parts of Sulawesi, the Moluccas, Kalimantan, Aceh, and Papua, relations between transmigrants and indigenous people are hostile. (references)

Brazil

The Minister of Defense denied the allegations, stating that any sexual relations that took place were consensual in nature, and usually involved soldiers of indigenous origin. (references)

Indonesia

Papuans complain of racism, religious bias, paternalism, and condescension as constant impediments to better relations with non-Papuans, including members of the Government, the military, and the non-Papuan business community. (references)

Minorities

Guinea

Mutual suspicion affects relations across ethnic lines, in and out of the Government. (references)

Iran

The Kurds' status as Sunni Muslims is an aggravating factor in their relations with the Shi'a-dominated government. (references)

Estonia

The majority of citizens are nominally Lutheran, but relations between the various religious communities generally are amicable. (references)

Political Economy

Chile

U.S.-Chilean relations are excellent. (references)

Bolivia

U.S.-Bolivian relations are very good. (references)

Armenia

American-Armenian relations are excellent. (references)

Political Rights

Comoros

The declaration called for the creation of a new Comorian entity, in which the islands would share a common policy on religion, nationality, currency, foreign relations, and defense. (references)

East Timor

However, prior to its dissolution in the months preceding the CNRT received material support and derived legitimacy from its close relations with UNTAET; other parties did not enjoy the same advantages. (references)

Tajikistan

Days before the election, an apparently arbitrary Supreme Court decision allowed one of the three aspiring opposition candidates, Economics and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Davlat Usmon of the Islamic Renaissance Party, to register. (references)

Trade

Peru

Regina Basic - Public Relations, ext. (references)

Nicaragua

All the banks have correspondent relations with banks in the U.S. and Europe. (references)

Eritrea

The Commercial Bank has correspondence relations with Citibank of New York as well as some European banks. (references)

Travel

Ecuador

Ecuadorians are formal when engaged in business relations. (references)

Indonesia

Patience and the development of personal relations is the key. (references)

Peru

Peruvians are formal when engaged in business relations and suits and ties are the norm. (references)

Women

Bahrain

Rape is illegal; however, because marital relations are governed by Shari'a law, spousal rape is not a legal concept within the law. (references)

Uganda

The Domestic Relations Bill was not passed during the year; however, it was expected to be reintroduced in the next session of Parliament. (references)

Russia

Women reported sexual harassment in the workplace, and anecdotal information suggests that many potential employers seek female employees who are receptive to sexual relations. (references)

Worker Rights

Malawi

The law governs labor-management relations. (references)

Slovak Republic

No special legislation governs labor relations in free trade zones. (references)

Thailand

The employees were ordered reinstated by the Labor Relations Committee. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Relations

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Paul Burrell

It's unusual place. It's a world by itself. It has its own rules and regulations and upstairs-downstairs relations. Life below stairs is just as complicated as life above.

Pervez Musharraf

Well, we do have diplomatic relations with Afghanistan, and there's the Afghan embassy there, representative of the Taliban. So, to that extent, we have diplomatic relations and contact with them.

Rush Limbaugh

The letter speaks merely of the agreements relating to an essential chapter in Franco-Iraqi relations, both in the present circumstances and in the future.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Relations

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Contemplating the internal situation as well as the external relations of the United States, we discover equal cause for contentment and satisfaction.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Since our last meeting the aspect of our foreign relations has considerably changed.

James Monroe

1817-1825By ordering the restitution of the posts those relations were preserved.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829Subordinate departments have distributed the executive functions in their various relations to foreign affairs, to the revenue and expenditures, and to the military force of the Union by land and sea.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837This finishes the connected view I have thought it proper to give of our political and commercial relations in Europe.

Calvin Coolidge

1923-1929If we are to judge by past experience, there is much to be hoped for in international relations from frequent conferences and consultations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969So let there be light and reason in our relations.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Consultations on mutual security, defense, and East-West relations have grown closer.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981International Relations and National Security.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989We're prepared for a positive change in Soviet-American relations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Relations

"Relations" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Relations" is used about 11,206 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)99.86%11,190830
Noun (proper)0.13%1590,616
                    Total100.00%11,206N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Relations

Expressions using "relations": Boltzmann relations break off relations breaking of diplomatic relations Community-Institutional Relations cut relations Dentist-Patient Relations diplomatic relations domestic relations law ecological relations establish friendly relations Extramarital Relations Family Relations Father-Child Relations food relations foreign relations gender relations have relations with have sexual relations Hospital-Patient Relations Hospital-Physician Relations Host-Parasite Relations human relations industrial relations industrial relations court Interdepartmental Relations Intergenerational Relations Interinstitutional Relations international relations Interpersonal Relations Interprofessional Relations jaw relations labor relations labour relations legal relations live off smb.'s relations maintain good relations Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics) Mother-Child Relations mutual relations national Labor Relations Board Nurse-Patient Relations Parent-Child Relations phase relations Physician-Nurse Relations Physician-Patient Relations Professional-Family Relations Professional-Patient Relations public relations public relations department public relations man public relations officer race relations race relations board relations of production sever relations sexual relations Sibling Relations strain relations trade relations. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "relations": relations-speak.

Ending with "relations": industrial-relations, inter-relations, labour-relations, module-relations, object-relations, power-relations, pseudo-relations, public-relations.

Containing "relations": module-relations-are, public-relations campaign.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Relations

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

public relations

1,723

customer relations

64

council on foreign relations

302

alabama department industrial relations

62

public relations job

268

industry public relations singapore

61

national labor relations board

229

california department industrial relations

51

media relations

208

qualified domestic relations order

51

investor relations

203

race relations

46

public relations firm

184

public relations definition

45

labor relations

179

customer relations management

43

international relations

166

board labor relations

42

public relations company

162

domestic pa relations

41

employee relations

122

online public relations

41

national labor relations act

101

community relations

39

industrial relations

96

labour relations

39

anglo german relations

93

government relations

38

human relations

90

press relations

37

public relations agency

87

fatal relations

37

department industrial relations

78

public relations consultant

37

public relations society of america

78

sexual relations

37

domestic relations

77

public relations career

35

relations

67

marketing public relations

33
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Relations

Language Translations for "relations"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

afërm (close, intimate, near, nearby, next, relatives). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏علاقات عامة, ‏ذو القربى (kinsmen), ‏إتصالات (communication, connecting, connection, connexion, intercourse, telecommunication). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

връзки (intercourse, knot, neckwear, ties, truck), отношения (dealings, intercourse, truck). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

關係 (guanxi, relation, relationship, to affect, to concern, to have to do with), "系 (Associating, Concatenation, relation). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vztahy. (various references)

   

Danish

  

slægt (ancestors, relatives). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verwanten (relatives), familie (extended family, family, relatives), bloedverwanten (relatives). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

parencaro (relatives). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

välit (terms). (various references)

   

French

  

relationnel (relational), rapports (relationship), proches (relatives). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sibben (relatives). (various references)

   

German

  

Beziehungen (dealings, intercommunion, pull, relationships), Verwandtschaft (affiliation, affinity, blood-relationship, family, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinship, relatedness, relation, relationship, relatives). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συγγένειεσ. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

afërm (close, intimate, near, nearby, next, relatives). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יחסי א וש (human relations), יחסי צבור (public relations). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érintkezés (commerce, communication, connection, contact, converse, intercourse, junction, liaison, osculation, tangency). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

frændfólk (relatives). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bercabul (have illicit sexual relations, rage), asmaragama (the art of sexual relations). (various references)

   

Italian

  

parentado (affiliation, affinity, blood-relationship, clan, relationship, relatives). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

縁辺 (border, edge, relative), 交わり (acquaintance, intersection, sexual intercourse). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まじわり (acquaintance, intersection, sexual intercourse), え"ぺ" (border, edge, relative). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

관계 (Concerning, regard, relation, relationship). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sleih (crowd, family, inhabitants, people, populace, public). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

familie (family, relatives). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elationsray

   

Portuguese

  

relações (affiliation, dealings, intercourse). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

relaţii (bond, connection, dealing with, dealings, intercommunication, intercourse, relation, terms), raporturi (intercourse, terms), termen (expression, hour, name, reprieve, term, terminus, terms, time, word), contact (connection, contact, ignition, intercourse, switch, touch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

связь (affair, band, bandage, binding, brace, catena, cement, coherence, coherency, communication, communications, connection, connexion, context, coupling, intercommunication, intercourse, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, nexus, rapport, relation, relationship, relationships, signalling, stay). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

muinntir (folks, household, household; relations, people). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veze. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

relaciones (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, intercourse, liaison, relationship, truck). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förhållande (behavior, behaviour, circumstances, conditions, conduct, connection, connexion, footing, liaison, love affair, proportion, ratio, relation, relationship, state of affairs). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างคนต่างเชื้อชาติที่อยู่ในชุมชนเ"ียวกัน (race relations). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

aile (brood, domestic, family, kin, menage, next of kin, stirpes, stirps). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стосунки (term). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người phụ trách tiếp xúc với quần chúng (public relations officer), người phụ trách báo chí (public relations officer), mối quan hệ với quần chúng (public relations), mối liên hệ với quần chúng (public relations). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cael cyfathrach a+ (have intercourse with, have relations with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Relations

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consanguinei, consanguineis, consanguineus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Relations

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 10, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai th epaurion eishlqon eiV thn kaisareian o de kornhlioV hn prosdokwn autouV sugkalesamenoV touV suggeneiV autou kai touV anagkaiouV filouV
Latin405VulgateAltera autem die introivit Caesaream Cornelius vero expectabat illos convocatis cognatis suis et necessariis amicis
Middle English1395WyclifAnd the other dai he entride in to Cesarie. And Cornelie abood hem, with hise cousyns, and necessarie freendis, that weren clepid togidere.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd the thyrd daye entred they into Cesaria. And Cornelius wayted for them and had called to gether his kynsmen and speciall frendes.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and he had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd on the morrow they entered into Cesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Relations

LanguageActs Chapter 10, Verse 24
AlbanianNjë ditë më pas hynë në Cezare. Por Korneli po i priste dhe kishte mbledhur farefisin e tij dhe miqtë e tij të ngushtë.
CebuanoUg sa sunod nga adlaw sila nahiabut sa Cesarea. Ug si Cornelio nga nagpaabut kanila, nagpatigum sa iyang mga paryenti ug suod nga mga higala.
CroatianDrugi dan stiže u Cezareju. Kornelije ih je èekao sazvavši rodbinu i prisne prijatelje.
DanishOg den følgende Dag kom de til Kæsarea. Men Kornelius ventede på dem og havde sammnenkaldt sine Frænder og nærmeste Venner.
DutchEn des anderen daags kwamen zij te Cesarea. En Cornelius verwachtte hen, samengeroepen hebbende die van zijn maagschap en bijzonderste vrienden.
FinnishJa sen jälkeisenä päivänä he saapuivat Kesareaan; ja Kornelius odotti heitä ja oli kutsunut koolle sukulaisensa ja lähimmät ystävänsä.
FrenchIls arrivèrent Césarée le jour suivant. Corneille les attendait, et avait invité ses parents et ses amis intimes.
GermanUnd des andern Tages kamen sie gen Cäsarea. Kornelius aber wartete auf sie und hatte zusammengerufen seine Verwandten und Freunde.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSehari sesudah itu mereka sampai ke Kaisarea. Di sana mereka sudah ditunggu-tunggu oleh Kornelius dengan sanak saudaranya serta kawan-kawan karibnya yang sudah diundangnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka pada esoknya pula tibalah mereka itu di Kaisaria. Maka Kornelius pun menantikan mereka itu sesudah ia menghimpunkan kaum keluarganya dan sahabatnya yang karib.
MaoriA ao ake ka tomo ratou ki Hiharia. Na ko Koronira e tatari mai ana ki a ratou, he mea karanga nana kia huihui mai ona whanaunga me ona hoa tupu.
NorwegianDagen efter kom de til Cesarea, og Kornelius hadde kalt sammen sine frender og nærmeste venner og ventet på dem.
PortugueseNo outro dia entrou em Cesaréia. E Cornélio os esperava, tendo reunido os seus parentes e amigos mais íntimos.   
RumanianA doua zi, s`a sculat, wi a plecat cu ei. L-au knsoyit wi ckyiva frayi din Iope. Kn cealaltq zi au ajuns la Cezarea. Corneliu ki awtepta cu rudele wi prietenii de aproape, pe cari -i chemase.
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