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Defenition of the word family

    • Defenition of the word family

      • A group comprising parents, offsprings and others closely related or associated with them.
      • A group of persons sharing a home or living space, who aggregate and share their incomes, as evidenced by the fact that they regularly take meals together.
      • A biological taxon, a group of animals or plants, part of an order and consisting of one or more genera.
      • Of or related to a family.
      • a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
      • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
      • people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Masachusetts since the Mayflower"
      • primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
      • people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
      • a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
      • a person having kinship with another or others; "he''s kin"; "he''s family"
      • primary social group; parents and children
      • people descended from a common ancestor
      • a collection of things sharing a common attribute
      • a social unit living together
      • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
      • an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
      • a person having kinship with another or others

    Synonyms for the word family

      • ancestors
      • breed
      • category
      • children
      • class
      • descendants
      • domestic
      • dynasty
      • everyday
      • family line
      • family tree
      • family unit
      • fellowship
      • folk
      • folks
      • genus
      • group
      • home
      • house
      • household
      • intimate
      • kin
      • kind
      • kinfolk
      • kinsfolk
      • kinsperson
      • line
      • lineage
      • menage
      • people
      • personal
      • phratry
      • private
      • relations
      • relatives
      • sept
      • species
      • strain
      • type
      • variety

    Similar words in the family

      • family
      • family's

    Meronymys for the word family

      • child
      • genus
      • kid
      • order
      • parent
      • sib
      • sibling
      • subfamily
      • superphylum
      • tribe

    Hyponyms for the word family

      • affine
      • amphibian family
      • arthropod family
      • bacteria family
      • bird family
      • Bittacidae
      • brass family
      • broken home
      • chordate family
      • class Diplopoda
      • class Larvacea
      • class Myriapoda
      • coelenterate family
      • conjugal family
      • conjugation
      • Cosa Nostra
      • couple
      • ctenophore family
      • declension
      • denomination
      • dicot family
      • Diplopoda
      • 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
      • Larvacea
      • liliopsid family
      • Maffia
      • Mafia
      • magnoliopsid family
      • Malacostraca
      • mammal family
      • man and wife
      • marriage
      • married couple
      • Marx Brothers
      • match
      • mates
      • menage a trois
      • mollusk family
      • monocot family
      • moss family
      • Myriapoda
      • name
      • nuclear family
      • Panorpidae
      • paradigm
      • people
      • plant family
      • protoctist family
      • reptile family
      • sex
      • stamp
      • subclass Malacostraca
      • substitution class
      • syntactic category
      • violin family
      • woodwind family
      • worm family

    Hypernyms for the word family

      • 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

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