Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - related

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If two or more things are related, there is a connection between them. The philosophical problems of chance and of free will are closely related. = connected ADJ 2. People who are related belong to the same family. ...people in countries like Bangladesh who have been able to show they are related to a spouse or parent living in Britain. ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ to n 3. If you say that different types of things, such as languages, are related, you mean that they developed from the same language. Sanskrit is related very closely to Latin, Greek, and the Germanic and Celtic languages. ...closely related species. ADJ: oft ADJ to n