Noun
The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant.
Reference; respect; regard.
Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. Leonhard Euler
A good friend is better than a near relation. Argentinean Proverb
Those who derive fun watching lunatics, out to have one as a child or relation to know the pains of it. Nigerian Proverb
A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend. French Proverb