family
/fˈæmʌli/
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Definitions
Noun
a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
Noun
primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
Noun
a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
Noun
people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
Noun
a person having kinship with another or others; "he''s kin"; "he''s family"
Noun
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
Noun
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
Noun
an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
Synonyms
category
class
crime syndicate
family line
family unit
fellowship
folk
home
house
household
kin
kinfolk
kinsfolk
kinsperson
menage
mob
phratry
sept
syndicate
More General Terms
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
More Specific Terms
affine
amphibian family
arthropod family
bacteria family
bird family
Bittacidae
brass family
broken home
chordate family
coelenterate family
conjugal family
conjugation
Cosa Nostra
couple
ctenophore family
declension
denomination
dicot family
dynasty
echinoderm family
Endamoebidae
extended family
family Bittacidae
family Endamoebidae
family Panorpidae
fern family
Filoviridae
fish family
form family
foster family
foster home
fungus family
gens
grammatical category
histocompatibility complex
homefolk
house
koinonia
liliopsid family
Maffia
Mafia
magnoliopsid family
mammal family
man and wife
marriage
married couple
match
mates
menage a trois
mollusk family
monocot family
moss family
name
nuclear family
Panorpidae
paradigm
people
plant family
protoctist family
reptile family
sex
stamp
substitution class
syntactic category
violin family
woodwind family
worm family