relatives
REL-uh-tivz/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪvz/
- 1Plural of relative.
Distant relatives gathered for the reunion after many years apart.
The will divided the estate among several surviving relatives.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, and always a noun: the adjective relative (relative humidity, relative terms) never takes an ending. Most often it means family members, but it stretches figuratively to kindred things: wild relatives of a crop, close relatives of a language. In the grammar of certain Bantu languages, relatives are also adjective-like words that inflect like relative clauses.
relatives is a form of relative
relative, noun: A person connected to you by blood, marriage, or adoption; a member of your family. Full entry
- Forms
- relativerelatives plural
- Spelling
- relative → relatives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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