Family
//ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li//
Word Type
Noun
Adjective
The word "family" can be used as noun and adjective.
Word Relationships
Typical Location
Capable Of
arriving at home branch out in many directions buy house call relatives crowd around television eat in backyard farm potatoes include five children include four children include more than related people include no children include one child include ten children include three children include two children move house move to new house move to new state plan to go on vacation plan vacation play board game together share food with needy people share meal sits at table to eat spend vacation on cruise visit at thanksgiving visit city on vacatio visit museum together visit relatives on thanksgiving visit zoo
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Defined As
Derived Terms
Batfamily ERM protein family Ewing family Family Day Helly family Holy Family Sperner family Wood family all in the family aluminium family antifamily baby of the family befamilied biofamily birthfamily blended family chosen family county family epifamily extended family fam familect familied familiocracy familist family Bible family affair family allowance family annihilation family annihilator family bed family business family car family celebrant family circle family court family dissident family doctor family friend family ganging family grouping family guy family heirloom family historian family history family home evening family jewels family law family leave family man family meal family medicine family member family name family newspaper family of curves family of orientation family of procreation family of sets family of subsets family office family pajamas family physician family planning family pole family rebel family rebellion family resemblance family restaurant family reunification family reunion family romance family roof family room family size family tree family unit family valuer family values family wage family woman family-friendliness family-friendly family-run family-sized family-style family-valuer familyhood familyish familyism familyist familyless familylike familymoon familywise fampool first family foster family found family framily gene family glitter family godfamily gold star family hamily host family ichnofamily immediate family in a family way in the family way infrafamily interfamily intrafamily joint family keep it in the family language family live with one's wife's family macrofamily merfamily multifamily multigene family natural family planning nonfamily nuclear family nuke family one big happy family oofamily pearly family polyfamily profamily rainbow family retrofamily royal family run in the family second family sell the family silver single-parent family start a family stem family stepfamily suprafamily the family that lays together stays together the family that prays together stays together the family that sleeps together keeps together underfamily unfamilied word family working family
Etymologically Related To
Has Part
Context
Has Property
Broader Terms (Hypernyms)
accumulation aggregation ancestry assemblage association blood blood line bloodline clan collection descent gangdom gangland kin kin group kindred kinship group line line of descent lineage organized crime origin parentage pedigree relation relative social unit stemma stock taxon taxonomic category taxonomic group tribe unit
Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)
Type Of (IsA)
Made Of
Parts (Meronyms)
Part Of
Receives Action
Related Terms
Related Terms
adoption all kin all relatives all together altogether ancestral and children and kids aunts aunts uncles blood blood group bonding bonding unit brother brother mom brother sister characteristics children children parents clan classification closest closest kin collection collection kin common community cousin cousins dad dad mom daughter daughter dad descended dwellers each each other extended family familial familiar familicide father father mother father son four four people friends friends and gathering gathering unit generations genetic genetic group genetics genus group group people group relations group relatives grouping home home dwellers home group home people home unit homes house house group house people houses human human group immediate immediate family immediate relation informal informal organization kids kids parents kin kin group kin relationship kin relatives kindred kinfolk kinship loved loved ones many people many relatives marriage members mod mod dad mom mom dad mom son mother mother brother mother father mother kids mother son mum mum dad ones order organism organization other parent parent kids parental parental group parents parents children parents kids parents siblings people people group people relatives people together people tree people unit platonic portrait rank related related group related people relation relation group relation set relations relations relatives relationship relative relative group relatives relatives group relatives relations set several several members shared shared genetics siblings siblings parents sister sister brother sister mother six social social group social structure social unit society son structure taxon thanksgiving things together tree uncles unit you
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