family

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Meaning

1. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
2. An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
3. A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
4. Members of one's family collectively.
5. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
6. (slang) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
7. Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
8. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
9. Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
10. A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
11. A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
12. A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

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extended family

family line

one’s people

one’s folks

crime syndicate

near relation

blood line

kinship group

line of descent

members of a family

one’s family

members of the family

poor family

kin kinsfolk

pedigree race

belonging to a family

discussion section

household affairs

household deity

commonwealth

erst

genealogical tree

Frequency

Hyphenated as

fa‧mi‧ly

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.

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An user

He
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was born in Scotland

into a

wealthy family
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An user

Sailing is in the family
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around Breault .

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