All 10 Uses of
relative
in
Main Street
- As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near relative was a vanilla-flavored sister married to an optician in St. Paul.†
Chpt 1
- From those early brown and silver days and from her independence of relatives Carol retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was taking part in it.†
Chpt 1 *
- They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.†
Chpt 17
- Myrtle Cass, as the office-boy, was so much pleased by the applause of her relatives, then so much agitated by the remarks of Cy Bogart, in the back row, in reference to her wearing trousers, that she could hardly be got off the stage.†
Chpt 18
- The true Main Streetite defines a relative as a person to whose house you go uninvited, to stay as long as you like.†
Chpt 20
- If you hear that Lym Cass on his journey East has spent all his time "visiting" in Oyster Center, it does not mean that he prefers that village to the rest of New England, but that he has relatives there.†
Chpt 20
- It does not mean that he has written to the relatives these many years, nor that they have ever given signs of a desire to look upon him.†
Chpt 20
- Uncle Whittier and Aunt Bessie assumed that it was their privilege as relatives to laugh at Carol, and their duty as Christians to let her know how absurd her "notions" were.†
Chpt 20
- Mrs. Bogart showed herself perfectly willing to be an associate relative.†
Chpt 20 *
- And you'll be entertaining his relatives——Talk about Uncle Whit!†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(relative as in: they are relatives) connectedin various senses, including:
- a person related by blood or marriage -- as in "The hospital won't let me visit her because I'm not a relative."
- a plant or animal related by origin or grouping -- "The closest relative of the dog is the gray wolf."
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)