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Family
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- 1 Suitable for children and adults. not-comparable
"It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant."
- 2 Homosexual. not-comparable, slang
"I knew he was family when I first met him."
- 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. countable, uncountable
"Our family lives in town."
- 2 primary social group; parents and children wordnet
- 3 An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. countable, uncountable
- 4 people descended from a common ancestor wordnet
- 5 A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. countable, uncountable
"The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality."
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- 6 a collection of things sharing a common attribute wordnet
- 7 Members of one's family collectively. uncountable
"I have a lot of family in Australia."
- 8 a social unit living together wordnet
- 9 A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. countable, uncountable
"crime family, Mafia family"
- 10 (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera wordnet
- 11 A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.; The gay community. slang, uncountable
"[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say."
- 12 an association of people who share common beliefs or activities wordnet
- 13 Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage. uncountable
"Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more."
- 14 a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities wordnet
- 15 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. countable, uncountable
"Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family."
- 16 a person having kinship with another or others wordnet
- 17 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.; A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. countable, uncountable
"Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae."
- 18 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.; A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set. countable
"Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S."
- 19 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.; A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. countable, uncountable
"the brass family; the violin family"
- 20 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.; A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. countable, uncountable
"the Indo-European family"
Etymology
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
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