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family

noun
/ˈfæm.(ə.)li/UK/ˈfæm.(ə.)li/CA/ˈfeə̯m.(ə.)li/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from familia
  2. inherited from famylye

Definitions

  1. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption)

    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.

    • Our family lives in town.

  2. An extended family

    An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

  3. A nuclear family

    A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

    • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
    • We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Members of one's family collectively.

      • I have a lot of family in Australia.
      • He has a sister, but no other family.

    2. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom,…

      A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

      • crime family, Mafia family
      • This is my fraternity family at the university.
      • Our company is one big happy family.

    3. Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

      • Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.

    4. Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing…

      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.

      • Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
      • Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.
      • When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]

    5. Suitable for children and adults.

      • It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
      • Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
      • This is a family restaurant, stop making out!

    6. Homosexual.

      • I knew he was family when I first met him.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for family. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA