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Type Words
Synonyms home, house, household, menage
Type of social unit, unit
Has types conjugal family, foster family, foster home, broken home, nuclear family, menage a trois, extended family


he moved his family to Virginia.
the family refused to accept his will.
Type Words
Synonyms family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept
Type of stemma, ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock
Has types house, name, people, dynasty, gens, homefolk


his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower.
Type Words
Synonyms crime syndicate, mob, syndicate
Type of gangdom, gangland, organized crime
Has types maffia, cosa nostra, mafia
Type Words
Synonyms kin, kinsperson
Type of relative, relation
Has types affine
Derivation familial


he's family.
Type Words
Synonyms fellowship
Type of association
Has types koinonia


the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family.
Type Words
Synonyms category, class
Type of collection, assemblage, accumulation, aggregation
Has types brass family, denomination, stamp, woodwind family, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, syntactic category, substitution class, paradigm, violin family, sex, conjugation, declension
Type Words
Synonyms family unit
Type of kindred, kinship group, kin group, kin, tribe, clan
Has types match, marriage, man and wife, couple, married couple, mates
Derivation familial


he wanted to have a good job before starting a family.
Type Words
Type of taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group
Has types plant family, bacteria family, panorpidae, protoctist family, bird family, bittacidae, amphibian family, worm family, chordate family, coelenterate family, ctenophore family, dicot family, echinoderm family, endamoebidae, family bittacidae, family endamoebidae, family panorpidae, fern family, filoviridae, fish family, form family, fungus family, liliopsid family, arthropod family, magnoliopsid family, mammal family, reptile family, mollusk family, monocot family, moss family


sharks belong to the fish family.

Examples of family

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However, he said a family health issue last month caused him to change his mind.
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Busch IV, 46, joined the family business in the mid-1980s and worked his way up.
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The condition is genetic, but no one in his immediate or extended family has it.
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Returning to the party, Juarez told family and friends about the alleged attack.
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This family activity is free and open to the public with skate rental available.
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The trial and sentencing phase was grueling for the jurors and the Petit family.
From the abcnews.go.com
At 13, your child can begin to do her own laundry and help prepare family meals.
From the stltoday.com
For example, she might play up the family attractions to parenting publications.
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The Herdman kids epitomize the quintessential family of leeches and delinquents.
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More examples
  • 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"
  • Primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
  • Class: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
  • People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
  • Kin: a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
  • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
  • In human context, a family (from Latin: familiare) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. ...
  • Family is a television drama mini-series that aired on RTu00C9 One and BBC One in 1994. It was written by Roddy Doyle, the author of The Commitments, and directed by Michael Winterbottom.
  • Family is a 2001 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike.