relatives

Your extended clan

Relatives are people connected by blood or marriage—your family members.

The word covers the full range from immediate family (parents, siblings, children) to distant cousins and in-laws: We're having relatives over for Thanksgiving.

As an adjective, relative means considered in relation to something else rather than absolutely: The relative merits of each approach.

Everything is relative.

family

siblings

Fellow offspring

parentsMother and father
childrenYoung human beings
cousinsRelatives through shared grandparents

nephews · nieces · uncles · aunts · grandparents · grandchildren · in-laws · stepfamily · foster · adoptive

ancestry

genealogy

Study of family descent

heritageInherited cultural legacy
lineageDescent from progenitors
descentDownward slope or lineage

forebears · progenitors · ancestors · pedigree · roots · origin · predecessors · clan · tribe · legacy

genetics

DNA

Hereditary code molecule

chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
genesUnits of heredity
heredityGenetic trait transmission

inheritance · biological · consanguinity · genotype · phenotype · haplogroup · traits · hereditary · mitochondrial · paternity

kinship

half-brother

Male sharing one parent

half-sisterFemale sibling, one shared parent
stepbrotherSon of a step-parent
stepsisterSibling through remarriage

godparents · godchildren · great-aunt · great-uncle · great-grandparents · kith · consanguineous · matrilineal · patrilineal · bilateral

relatives

siblings

genealogy

DNA

half-brother

relatives

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Family