The meaning of RELATIVE is a person connected with another by blood or marriage. How to use relative in a sentence.

A relative is a person who is part of your family. Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews — they're all relatives.

Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

RELATIVE meaning: 1 : a member of your family; 2 : something that belongs to the same group as something else because of shared characteristics, qualities, etc.

Your relatives are the members of your family. Ask a relative to look after the children.

COLLOCATIONS adjectives a close relative (=a brother, parent, aunt etc) He lost several close relatives in the war. a distant relative She claims to be a distant relative of the Queen. a blood …

Definition of relative noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

I went to visit my relatives and wish them a happy new year and send my best new year wishes. I will be out of town for one month to visit some of my relatives, or I will be out of town to visit …

1. 'relation' and 'relative' Your relations or relatives are the members of your family. I said that I was a relation of her first husband. I'm going to visit some relatives. The relations between …

RELATIVE definition: a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage. See examples of relative used in a sentence.