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View synonyms for blood relation
blood relation
or blood relative
noun
- one related by birth.
blood relation
noun
- a person related to another by birth, as distinct from one related by marriage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blood relation1
First recorded in 1700–10
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Example Sentences
Usually he was a distant kinsman, but whether a blood relation or not, we regarded all Welshmen as belonging to our clan.
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He proved to be a Mr. Alexander,—it may fairly be presumed the Alexander of Ballochmyle, a blood relation of the lovely lass.
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Edom was the most bitter enemy of Israel, their blood-relation.
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Since my grandfather died last year I have had nobody left of my own in 202 the world,—no real blood relation.
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Garth had not a "blood relation" on earth, as far as he knew; but he had an adopted mother, and he had friends.
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