Word · Frequency #2255
relative
亲属；亲戚
A person connected to another by blood, marriage, or adoption; a family member.
- 1.
Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
亲属；家人
- 2.
a person related by blood or marriage
血缘或婚姻关系的亲属
- 3.
Something kindred or related to something else.
相关或类似的事物
- 4.
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
与另一动植物有关系的动植物(如共同祖先或同属)
- 5.
A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
班图语言中一种像关系从句而非真正形容词那样变形的形容词
相关物；同类事物；同源动物（或植物）；同属物种；关系形容词（班图语）；亲属；家人；血缘或婚姻关系的亲属
In use
We invited all our relatives to the wedding.
She is a distant relative of mine from my father's side.
My relatives are coming to visit us next week.
police are searching for relatives of the deceased
Connections
Collocations
- close relative
- 近亲
- She invited only her close relatives to the wedding.她只邀请了近亲参加婚礼。
- distant relative
- 远亲
- I met a distant relative I had never seen before.我遇到了一位从未见过的远亲。
- immediate relative
- 直系亲属
- Only immediate relatives are allowed in the intensive care unit.只有直系亲属才允许进入重症监护室。
- blood relative
- 血亲
- He is a blood relative, not just an in-law.他是血亲，不只是姻亲。
- living relative
- 在世的亲属
- She has no living relatives left.她没有在世的亲人了。
- family relative
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：relative 与 relation（关系）同源，亲戚就是有关系的人。
Context & Register
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Grammar Note
可数名词，指家庭成员或亲属关系。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Words rhyming with 'relative' (stressed vowel /ɛ/ + /ətɪv/): negative, speculative. Note: creative, alternative, and initiative share the '-ative' spelling but have different stressed vowels ('creative' /eɪ/, 'alternative' /ɜː/, 'initiative' /ɪ/), so they do not rhyme.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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