Family

/ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li/

Synonyms for "family" (258 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (52)

Noun(9 words)

class kin category household kinfolkblood relativeschild safeclassification levelcrime syndicate

affiliation agnate ancestors ancestryanimal kingdomantonomasia apparentation ashram backgroundbinomial nomenclaturebiosystematics biosystematy biotype birth bloodblood relationblood relativebloodline body branch

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breed brood caste children clan clannish clansman class classification cognate collateralcollateral relativecolonycommon ancestrycommonwealth commune community connection connections consanguinean consanguinity deme derivation

Strong matches (77)

descendant descendants descent diphyletic directdirect linedistaff sidedistant relationdivision dynastyeconomic classenateendogamous groupethnicextended familyextractionfamily treefemale linefiliation flesh

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flesh and bloodfolk folks forebears forefathers fruit genealogical genealogy genetic genotype genre gens gentile gentilic genus german get glossology grandchildren great-grandchildren group hearth heir heirs home homefolkshostages to fortunehouse household inheritor inheritors issue kid kids kin kind

Noun(19 words)

domestic domesticity fam familialfamily friendlyfamily linefamily unitfamily-operated family-owned family-run fellowshipflesh and bloodfolk group haydn home homefolk househousehold items

Adjective(2 words)

domestic pethousehold chores

Related words (129)

kindred kinfolk kingdom kinnery kinsfolkkinship groupkinsman kinsmen kinswomankith and kinlineline of descentlineage lineallittle onesmale linematriclan menage moiety nation

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nationalnear relationnew generationnext of kinnomenclaturenuclear familyoffspring onomastics onomatology order orismology parentage paternity patriclan pedigree people phratria phratry phyle phyletic phylogenetic phylum place-names place-namingplant kingdompolyonymy posterity progenitors progeny race racial relations relative relativesrising generationroot section seed sept series set settlement sib sibling sidesocial classsociety sons sortspear kinspear sidespeciesspindle kinspindle sidestem stirp stirps stock strain subcaste subclass subdivision subfamily subgenus subkingdom suborder subspecies subtribe succession superclass superfamily superorder superspeciessword sidesystematics taxonomy terminology toponymy totem totemic treasures tribal tribe tribesman trinomialism typeuterine kinvariety younglings youngster youngsters

Noun(17 words)

kinfolks kinsfolk kinsperson medici menage menages mishpachah mob phratry rankrelated torelatives sept setsocial unitsyndicatetaxonomic group

Adjective(1 words)

private establishment

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

44 entries

accumulation aggregation ancestry assemblage associationaudience descriptorbloodblood linebloodlinebusiness descriptorcategory clan classification collectioncontent descriptordescent

Showing 16 of 44 words.

More specific

17 entries

Canidae Felidae Ursidae ancestralblended familycolor familyextended familyfamily orientedfamily-operated family-owned family-runfont familykid friendlymaternalnuclear familypaternal

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Collocations

11 entries

extended familyfamily budgetfamily friendlyfamily lifefamily memberfamily sizefamily timefamily traditionsfamily treefamily valuesimmediate family

Inflections

3 entries

familiesmore family-likemost family-like

Derivations

3 entries

familial familyhood familywise

Translations

165 translations across 88 languages.

Arabic

4 entries

أَقَارِب noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
أَهْل noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
أُسْرَة noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
عَائِلَة noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Armenian

1 entries

ընտանիք noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Aromanian

2 entries

fumealje noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
fumealji noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Asturian

1 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

ailəvi noun ((used attributively))
külfət noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
qohum-əqrəba noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Belarusian

2 entries

род noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
сям'я́ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Bengali

3 entries

খানদান noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
গোষ্ঠী noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
বংশ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Breton

3 entries

familh noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
familh noun ((used attributively))
kerentiezh noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Bulgarian

2 entries

рода́ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
семе́ен noun ((used attributively))

Catalan

2 entries

familiar noun ((used attributively))
família noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Chechen

2 entries

гаьргара нах noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
доьзал noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Chinese

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Czech

2 entries

rodina noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
rodinný noun ((used attributively))

Danish

2 entries

familie noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
familie- noun ((used attributively))

Dutch

1 entries

familie noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Esperanto

2 entries

familia noun ((used attributively))
familio noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Ewe

1 entries

ƒome noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Faroese

1 entries

ætt noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Finnish

3 entries

perhe- noun ((used attributively))
suku noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
suku- noun ((used attributively))

French

1 entries

famille noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Galician

2 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
familiar noun ((used attributively))

German

1 entries

Familie noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌹 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Greek

2 entries

οικογένεια noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
οικογένεια noun ((used attributively))

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Hebrew

2 entries

מִשְׁפָּחָה noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
משפחתי noun ((used attributively))

Hindi

4 entries

कुटुंब noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
कुल noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
ख़ानदान noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
घराना noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Hungarian

3 entries

család noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
családi noun ((used attributively))
házi noun ((used attributively))

Icelandic

4 entries

afkvæmi noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
fjölskylda noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
skyldmenni noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
ættingi noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Ido

1 entries

familio noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Indonesian

1 entries

kerabat noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Ingrian

1 entries

suku noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Interlingua

2 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
familiar noun ((used attributively))

Iranian Persian

3 entries

خانْدان noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
خویشان noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
نَزْدیکان noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Irish

2 entries

dream noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
muintir noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Italian

1 entries

famiglia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Japanese

4 entries

家庭 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
親戚 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
親族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
親類 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Kildin Sami

1 entries

гоанҍц noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Korean

3 entries

가정 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
친족 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
친척 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

кодок noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Latgalian

2 entries

ciļts noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
dzymums noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Latin

2 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
gēns noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Latvian

3 entries

dzimta noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
radinieki noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
ģimene noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Lisu

1 entries

ꓚꓬꓸ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Lithuanian

2 entries

giminė noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
šeimyna noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Louisiana Creole

1 entries

famiy noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

swójźba noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Macedonian

4 entries

род noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
семеен noun ((used attributively))
семејство noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
фамилија noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Malay

2 entries

famili noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
keluarga noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Malayalam

2 entries

കുടുംബം noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
കുലം noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Middle English

2 entries

kyn noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
kynrede noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Māori

1 entries

whānau noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Navajo

1 entries

hakʼéí noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

malbatî noun ((used attributively))

Old English

1 entries

hīred noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Polish

3 entries

rodzina noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
rodzinny noun ((used attributively))
ród noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Portuguese

2 entries

familiar noun ((used attributively))
família noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Romani

1 entries

familija noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Romanian

2 entries

familiar noun ((used attributively))
familie noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Russian

4 entries

род noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
семе́йный noun ((used attributively))
семе́йство noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
семья́ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Sanskrit

1 entries

कुल noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Scots

2 entries

faimily noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
faimlie noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

teaghlach noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

obítelj noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
pòrodica noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
оби́тељ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
по̀родица noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Sicilian

1 entries

famigghia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Slovak

3 entries

rod noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
rodina noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
rodinný noun ((used attributively))

Slovene

2 entries

družina noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
družinski noun ((used attributively))

Spanish

2 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
familiar noun ((used attributively))

Swahili

1 entries

familia noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Swedish

1 entries

börd noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Tagalog

1 entries

kamag-anakan noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Tashelhit

1 entries

tagffut noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Telugu

1 entries

వంశ పరంపర noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Thai

1 entries

ตระกูล noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Tocharian B

1 entries

kottär noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Turkish

2 entries

aile noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
kodak noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎌𐎔𐎃 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Ukrainian

3 entries

роди́на noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
рід noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
сім'я́ noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Urdu

4 entries

آل noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
اَقارِب noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
اَہْل noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)
خانْدان noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Uzbek

1 entries

oila noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Vietnamese

1 entries

gia tộc noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Welsh

1 entries

teulu noun ((used attributively))

Wu Chinese

1 entries

家族 noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Yiddish

1 entries

משפּחה noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Zulu

1 entries

umndeni noun (group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

Sample sentences

39 total sentences available.

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It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.

Source: tatoeba (1682)

My friends always say I'm too calm, but my family always says I'm too annoying.

Source: tatoeba (1685)

With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.

Source: tatoeba (1942)

The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.

Source: tatoeba (1972)

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