family
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli/
:
familia
- My family and I spend every Sunday together enjoying home-cooked meals.
- family members
- family income
- family planning
Charge them the same family rate they charged me.
- Charge them the same family rate they charged me.
- And they're from these poor families in Eastern Europe.
- But the last time we've been back as a family was last Thanksgiving.
- I grew up in a single parent family, just me and my mum.
- I have a very awesome life and family, man and friends.
- Just about every family lost a child.
- Christmas was where my family very much went all out.
- Well, you can help your family out when they come in.
- I'll be playing that this Christmas with my family and friends.
- She's admitting there will be future first families and gatherings.
Examples
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The war's end proved especially protracted for families whose men remained in federal prison camps.
Academic text (2008) -
We all have to spend more time together as a family.
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It's a great game for, you know, families or just yourself.
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And at the end of the day, we're always family no matter what.
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Just about every family lost a child.
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I never had a family till I had football.
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I want to offer my congratulations and welcome you to the family.
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I grew up in a single parent family, just me and my mum.
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We are a family, and like any family, we have our good days and not-so-good days.
Academic text (2011) -
But the last time we've been back as a family was last Thanksgiving.
Synonyms
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1.0
The people who live together in one home, often a family
21
1.8
A group of parents and their children who live together
14
2.1
A family with just parents and their children
1
9.3
A household of people who live together and share everyday life
A family made up of a married couple and their children, sometimes including one partner's parents
Idioms
- Informal
14
3.4
A group of people who are close and friendly like a loving home
- Informal
4
7.1
To not tell people outside the family about important things
1
5.0
Only members of the same family own or run it, for example a family business
Families stay close and strong by spending time together
Compounds
- Specialized
55
2.7
Information about illnesses your relatives have had to help a doctor know your health risks
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2.7
A group of related people including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
14
3.5
A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
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2.7
Time away from work to care for family members after a birth, adoption, or when they are ill
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1.0
A connection between people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption
- Specialized
4
3.9
A meeting with a therapist for family members to improve communication and solve problems
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4.9
A large Bible kept at home with pages to record family births, marriages, and deaths
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3.4
A family whose members belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Specialized
1
4.8
A way to avoid pregnancy by not having sex during a woman's fertile days, without using medicine or devices
- Specialized
1
3.9
A group of instruments like trumpet or trombone that make sound when the player's lips buzz on a mouthpiece
- Specialized
1
5.5
A group of small round beetles like ladybugs that eat plant pests
- Specialized
1
6.5
A set of related fonts like regular, bold, and italic that match each other
1
3.7
A group of instruments that make sound when someone blows into them, like a flute or clarinet
- Specialized
A natural way to avoid pregnancy by checking a woman's daily morning temperature to find days she can get pregnant
- Specialized
A group of small trees, shrubs, and herbs that grow in hot, dry, salty places and are sometimes poisonous
- Specialized
A family of tropical plants with thick stems and attractive leaves often kept as houseplants
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants with pipe-shaped flowers, like wild ginger
- Specialized
Plants that are small trees or shrubs with inflated seed pods, found in areas with mild weather
- Specialized
A group of plants that live in water or bogs and catch and eat small animals
- Specialized
A family of flowering plants with coiled flower clusters and small nutlike fruits
- Specialized
A group of evergreen shrubs and small trees with glossy leaves, including boxwood, found worldwide
- Specialized
A group of water plants with long grass-like leaves and round flower heads
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants that includes buttercups and flowers like columbines and clematis
- Specialized
A group of small plants without leaves that are brown or yellow and live by taking food from other plants
- Specialized
A group of thorny trees and bushes that have small fruit often used for medicine
- Specialized
A group of plants that make flowers, for example buckwheat and rhubarb
- Specialized
A group of fragrant tropical trees with scented bark found in eastern Africa, Florida and the West Indies
A group of shrubs or small trees with fragrant bark and showy flowers from eastern United States and eastern Asia
A group of tall marsh plants like cattails with long leaves and brown flower spikes
- Specialized
A group of small plants with thick leaves that store water, like carpetweeds and fig marigolds
- Specialized
A group of plants like parsley and dill with small umbrella-shaped flower clusters
- Specialized
A family of flowering plants with two seed leaves including carnations and pinks
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Etymology
Family comes from the old Latin word familia, which meant the whole 'household', the people and servants who lived in one house. That's why family still means the people who live together as a unit.