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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
relevant + -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛl.ɪ.vən(t)s/, /ˈɹɛl.ə.vən(t)s/
- Hyphenation: rel‧e‧vance
Noun
relevance (usually uncountable, plural relevances)
- The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Translations
property or state of being relevant, pertinency
- Arabic: عَلَاقَة f (ʕalāqa), صِلَة f (ṣila)
- Bulgarian: уместност (bg) f (umestnost)
- Catalan: rellevància f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 相關性/相关性 (zh) (xiāngguānxìng)
- Czech: význam (cs) m
- Dutch: relevantie (nl) f
- Finnish: relevanssi (fi), asiaankuuluvuus
- French: pertinence (fr) f
- German: Relevanz (de) f, Aktualität (de) f, Belang (de) m
- Greek: σχέση (el) f (schési), συνάφεια (el) f (synáfeia)
- Indonesian: relevansi (id)
- Irish: ábharthacht f
- Italian: rilevanza (it), importanza (it), attualità (it)
- Japanese: 関連性 (かんれんせい, kanrensei)
- Kazakh: релеванттық (relevanttyq)
- Malay: kerelevanan
- Malayalam: പ്രസക്തി (ml) (prasakti)
- Manx: bentynys m
- Maori: hāngaitanga
- Polish: istotność (pl) f
- Portuguese: relevância (pt) f
- Romanian: relevanță (ro) f, pertinență (ro) f
- Russian: актуа́льность (ru) f (aktuálʹnostʹ), уме́стность (ru) f (uméstnostʹ), релева́нтность (ru) f (relevántnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: relevantnost (sh), važnost (sh), umjesnost (sh)
- Spanish: relevancia (es) f
- Swedish: relevans (sv) c
- Turkish: ilgililik (tr)
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Further reading
- “relevance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “relevance”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
relevance f
- relevance
Declension
Declension of relevance (soft feminine)
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Further reading
- relevance in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- relevance in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- relevance in Internetová jazyková příručka