plural of relation
"After years of estrangement, they finally reconciled their relations as a family unit."
In plain English: Relations are the connections or relationships between people, groups, or things.
"My family relations came to visit me over the weekend."
Derived from Latin relatio, this term originally meant a bringing back or reporting something to another person. It evolved through Old French to denote the act of relating facts and, by extension, the connections between people or things.