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  -rel

  a noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force.
• rel.
  rel.

  abbreviation

  relating.

-rel

¹ American  

1. a noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force.

   wastrel.

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rel. ² American  

abbreviation

1. relating.

2. relative.

3. relatively.

4. released.

5. religion.

6. religious.

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rel. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. relating

2. relative(ly)

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-rel ² British  

suffix

1. mainly disparaging indicating a person or thing viewed as diminutive, trivial, or worthless

   mongrel

   wastrel

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Etymology

Origin of -rel

Middle English < Old French -erel, -erelle

Example Sentences

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-rel rel.

The forms -rel, as in cockerel, pickerel, and -let, as in streamlet, require a separate consideration.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

When the rel. pron. is of the interrog. kind, it refers to the word or phrase containing the answer to the question, for its subsequent, which subsequent must agree in case with the interrogative.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham

I E ka int. and rel. pronoun; Pawnee ka interrogative; Dak ka interrogative suffix and in compounds; Ger wer; Dak tu-we who int. and rel; Gk po; Min tape who, tapa or tako what.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

I have said a few words on this colonization in my Mon. rel. aux myst. de Mithra, I, p.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont

See also the chaplain’s account in Terneaux Compans, Recueil de Pieces rel. a la Conquête de Mexique, p.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Jean de Serres gives two of them in his Comment. de statu rel. et reip., ii.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird