Meaning & use
relatives
Members of a person's family, connected by blood or marriage.
See it in a sentence
We spent the holiday visiting relatives who live on the coast.
Distant relatives she had never met attended her grandmother's funeral.
A note on using this word
"Relatives" is the plural of "relative" and almost always means family members, not the comparative sense of the adjective.
Words with a similar meaning
familykin
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