family
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- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli/
:
familia
- During the holidays, my family gathers to celebrate together and create new traditions.
- family member
- immediate family
- extended family
You, your, your friends and family will cease to exist.
- You, your, your friends and family will cease to exist.
- My mother's and father's family both fled the South.
- I think that this family is broken.
- The role of the mother in the family is ridiculed.
- Many men still want family to some degree, right?
- Like that's, that's this family bond that was just so strong.
- Is that because you prefer not to have family in your posts?
- He's like the dad in the family, not me.
- And he, he one time won a family football pool.
- The I'm told the family did not press charges.
- And all around him, friends, family and neighbors were dying.
Examples
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I have no friends, have no family, have no community.
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I'm just going to spend time with my family and not work.
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It's it's nice to be around family right now.
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I think that this family is broken.
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Many men still want family to some degree, right?
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Seems to me I knew your family, Henry.
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Just having to stand there and watch his family in tears.
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A man should spend time with his family.
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How would you describe your family and childhood?
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I've always felt like a stranger in my own family.
Synonyms
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2.6
People who are related by blood or marriage
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6.0
The family and relatives of a person
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6.7
Relatives who come from the same family, often including aunts and cousins
A group of people who are related by blood or marriage
A group of people related by blood or marriage like an extended family
People who are related to you by blood, like aunts and cousins
People in your family by blood or marriage
A group of relatives and close friends treated as family
Idioms
- Informal
14
3.4
A group of people who are close and friendly like a loving home
- Informal
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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
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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
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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
How Close
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Family first meant 'household' in Latin and later grew to mean all the people connected to you by birth, marriage, or adoption. So family today also means your 'relatives'.