blood relation
Shared ancestry connection
A blood relation is a person connected to you by birth rather than by marriage or adoption—someone who shares biological ancestry.
Parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are blood relations; in-laws and stepfamily are not.
She's a blood relation on my mother's side.
Also called blood relative.
- family memberPerson connected by blood
- kinBlood-connected people
- familyRelated people together
- consanguinityRelatedness through shared ancestry
- shared ancestryHaving the same forebears
common ancestor · kindred · sibling · cognate · lineage · genealogy · tribe · next of kin · clan · kinship · family bond · cousin · distant cousin · progeny · genes · inheritance · parent · dynasty
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- relativesmother, father, sister, brother, aunt
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- ancestryancestors, kinship, ancestor, clan, ancestry
- kinship lawconsanguinity, affinity, next of kin, kin, family ties
- parentagepaternity, parentage, maternity, fatherhood, motherhood
blood relationin-law
Spouse's family member
stepfamily · in-laws · stepparent · stepchild · stepsibling
blood relationnon-relative
One without kinship
stranger · complete stranger · acquaintance · chosen family · found family
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