Family

"Family" in German

Familien

(suitable for children and adults)

vom anderen Ufer

((slang) homosexual)

Familie

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

Familie

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

Familie

(rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species)

Familie

(music: a group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production)

Familie

(linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language)

Sippe

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.