BLOOD RELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood relation mean? 

• BLOOD RELATION (noun)
  The noun BLOOD RELATION has 1 sense:

1. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another

  Familiarity information: BLOOD RELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD RELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blood relation; blood relative; cognate; sib

Hypernyms ("blood relation" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

 Context examples 

I regret it, nephew, but I do not think that you are destined to attain that position which I have a right to expect from my blood relation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was evident that the victim was a blood relation and probably a very close one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The two girls, on whom, kneeling down on the wet ground, and looking through the low, latticed window of Moor House kitchen, I had gazed with so bitter a mixture of interest and despair, were my near kinswomen; and the young and stately gentleman who had found me almost dying at his threshold was my blood relation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There is a vast gap between his position and that of my own blood relation, and you must let him feel that you are his superior.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It made me proud as I watched him to think that so magnificent a man, with such easy, masterful ways, should be my own blood relation, and I could see from my mother’s eyes as they turned towards him that the same thought was in her mind.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)