blood relationnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌblʌd rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌblʌd rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/also blood relativesomeone who is related to you by birth rather than through marriage
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Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- grandchild
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- mom-and-pop
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
- your own flesh and blood idiom
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Examples from literature
- Among many of the old families only blood relations are expected to eat and drink together on this holy day.
- I have no other blood relations in Europe and know nothing of some distant cousins who live in Australia.
- My parents were blood relations—cousins in the second degree—my mother, whose maiden name was Minor, having descended from a collateral branch of my father's family.
- Some, with blood relations in the States, refused point blank to take up arms.
- The priests also instruct the boys on their duty to their blood relations, and teach them the secrets of the tribe.