Definition of FAMILY

family

Plural: families

Noun

  • A group of related persons, often living together.
  • a social unit living together
    • "he moved his family to Virginia"
  • primary social group; parents and children
    • "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
  • a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • people descended from a common ancestor
    • "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
  • a person having kinship with another or others
    • "he's family"
  • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
    • "sharks belong to the fish family"
  • a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  • A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
  • Members of one's family collectively.
  • A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  • A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  • The gay community.
  • Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Adj

  • Suitable for children and adults.
  • Homosexual.

Examples

  • crime family, Mafia family
  • Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
  • He has a sister, but no other family.
  • I have a lot of family in Australia.
  • I knew he was family when I first met him.
  • It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
  • Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.
  • Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
  • Our company is one big happy family.
  • Our family lives in town.
  • Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
  • Sometimes the best Scrabble words are a family of letters, neatly arranged.
  • the Afroasiatic family
  • the brass family;  the violin family
  • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
  • the Indo-European family
  • This is a family restaurant, stop making out!
  • This is my fraternity family at the university.
  • We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!

Origin / Etymology

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.

Synonyms

category, class, crime syndicate, family line, family unit, fellowship, folk, home, house, household, kin, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsperson, menage, mob, phratry, sept, syndicate, bloodline, fam, familia, flesh and blood, language family, mom and them, relatives

Scrabble Score: 14

family: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
family: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
family: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

family: valid Words With Friends Word