conjugal family
- noun
- /ˈkɒndʒʊɡəl ˈfæmɪli/
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familia conyugal
- The conjugal family usually includes a married couple and their children living together.
Examples
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The basic work unit was the conjugal family rather than the extended family.
Academic text (2005) -
As a result of this accelerated trend in earlier family divisions, a growing number of newly established conjugal families consist of young couples who have yet to produce children.
Academic text (1997) -
This was supported by many important developments in society, including the establishment of the middle class and the conjugal family organized around children.
Academic text (1991) -
Austin takes care to emphasize that it was the conjugal family that provided by far the greater part of the labor required in the changing 19th-century economy.
Academic text (2005) -
The credit system extended from loans between members of a matrilineage or conjugal family to state loans for slave raiding.
Academic text (2005) -
The concept of Westernization, that is, the penetration of Western ideals about the conjugal family which provide a direction for family change in the Third World.
Academic text (2001) -
An examination of Table 1 shows that the percentage of conjugal families in Xiajia increased from 59 percent (N = 162) in 1980 to 72 percent (N = 264) in 1991, with a net increase of 12 percent.
Academic text (1997) -
Many societies value the conjugal family as the essential unit for raising children.
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In her studies, she focused on how the conjugal family shapes social roles within communities.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
People who live together in one home, usually parents and their children
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1.8
A group of parents and their children who live together
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2.1
A family with just parents and their children
How Extended
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'conjugal' (connected to marriage) modifies 'family', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a family formed around a married couple and their kin. This adjective+noun pattern is predictable and cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Conjugal family comes from a word for 'marriage' and creates the image of a household built around a married couple. The word conjugal points to the husband and wife and family shows the group with their children and sometimes grandparents, so it means a family formed by a married couple and their children.