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related to you directly, for example by being your parent, child, brother, or sister
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related through your parents, grandparents etc and not through other relatives such as uncles or aunts
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used for saying that a man or boy has the same attitudes as his father or behaves in the same way
used for saying that two people who have the same family name are not related
on the woman’s side of a family
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a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken
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