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# relative

«relative» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person in your family, like an aunt, uncle, cousin or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a relative, relatives); adjective (relative)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A relative is a person in your family, like an aunt, uncle, cousin or grandparent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#m1)

2) As an adjective, relative means compared with something else, like «relative size». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#m2)

3) In grammar, a relative pronoun (who, which, that) joins a clause to a noun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In family lessons relatives are part of your family tree; in maths and science relative size, speed or position is measured compared with something else. Phrases: «a close relative», «a distant relative», «relative to», «relative clause».

### examples

- We visited our relatives at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x1)
- My aunt is my closest relative in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x2)
- Lions and house cats are distant relatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x3)
- The ant is tiny relative to the elephant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x4)
- «Who» is a relative pronoun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x5)
- Many relatives came to the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x6)
- The test was relatively easy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x7)
- A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/#x8)

### note

Countable as a noun. Adverb: relatively (quite, compared with others). Same as «relation» for family members. Relative clauses start with who, which, that, where.

### In the corpora

- [Bridesmaids are friends or relatives who help the bride and walk with her, and children can be flower girls or page boys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/13/)
- [Some relatives get on, some do not, and a few stop speaking for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/2/)
- [Big family gatherings bring together relatives who rarely meet, and they can be fun and stressful at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/9/)
- [Sometimes a relative is left out of a family event after an argument the grown-ups think is private.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/17/)
- [It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «relative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.