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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, family, flesh, folk, kin, kindred, lineage, relations, tribe |
| Main Entry: | alliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendly association, agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, affiliation, affinity, betrothal, bond, coalition, coherence, collaboration, collusion, combination, communion, compact, concord, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, congruity, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, cooperation, engagement, entente, federation, fraternization, friendship, interrelation, kinship, league, marriage, matrimony, membership, mutuality, pact, participation, partnership, relation, support, tie, treaty, union |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, estrangement, hostility, rebellion, separation, war |
| Main Entry: | belonging |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sense of security in friendship |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, affinity, association, attachment, inclusion, kinship, loyalty, rapport, relationship |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, insecurity |
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, consanguinity, descendants, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, relations, stock |
| Main Entry: | brotherhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, comradeship, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union |
| Antonyms: | sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
| Synonyms: | affinity, identity, kinship, likeness, sameness, semblance |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who aids another in achieving goal |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, agent, ally, associate, association, contact, friend, go-between, intermediary, kin, kindred, kinship, mentor, messenger, network, reciprocity, relation, relative, sponsor |
| Antonyms: | disconnection, gap, opening |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that communicates, relates |
| Synonyms: | affinity, application, association, bearing, bond, commerce, communication, correlation, correspondence, intercourse, interrelation, kinship, link, marriage, nexus, partnership, reciprocity, relation, relationship, relevance, tie-in, togetherness |
| Main Entry: | consanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
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