family
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli/
- During the holidays, my family gathers to celebrate together and create new traditions.
- family member
- immediate family
- extended family
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Watch on YouTubeYou, 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
122
2.6
People who are related by blood or marriage
8
6.0
The family and relatives of a person
6
6.7
Relatives who come from the same family, often including aunts and cousins
1
8.1
People who are related to you by blood, like aunts and cousins
1
4.5
A group of people who are related by blood or marriage
1
3.5
A group of people related by blood or marriage like an extended family
1
6.2
People in your family by blood or marriage
1
9.9
A group of relatives and close friends treated as family
Idioms
- Informal
16
3.4
A group of people who are close and friendly like a loving home
4
5.0
Only members of the same family own or run it, for example a family business
- Informal
4
7.1
To not tell people outside the family about important things
Families stay close and strong by spending time together
Compounds
53
2.7
A group of related people including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
- Specialized
27
2.7
Information about illnesses your relatives have had to help a doctor know your health risks
20
3.5
A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
18
2.7
Time away from work to care for family members after a birth, adoption, or when they are ill
9
1.0
A connection between people who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption
- Specialized
6
3.9
A meeting with a therapist for family members to improve communication and solve problems
3
4.9
A large Bible kept at home with pages to record family births, marriages, and deaths
2
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
6.5
A set of related fonts like regular, bold, and italic that match each other
- 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
9.9
A temporary group scientists use for plants or animals when it is not clear how they are related
1
3.7
A group of instruments that make sound when someone blows into them, like a flute or clarinet
- Specialized
1
9.9
A group of monkeys from Africa and Asia, like baboons and macaques
1
3.9
A group of string instruments played with a bow, like the violin, viola, cello, and double bass
- Specialized
1
4.8
A group of plants like cabbage, broccoli, and turnip that have flowers with four petals
- Specialized
1
6.7
A group of flowering plants that includes yams and other plants with starchy underground tubers
- Specialized
1
4.1
A group of plants like parsley and dill with small umbrella-shaped flower clusters
- Specialized
1
6.8
A group of climbing flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers like sweet potato and bindweed
- Specialized
1
6.0
A group of flowering plants like irises and crocuses that grow from bulbs or underground stems
- Specialized
1
6.0
A group of flowering plants like poppies with milky sap and seed pods
- Specialized
1
4.2
A group of flowering plants that includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplants
- Specialized
1
8.6
A group of trees and shrubs that have flowers, including witch-hazel and sweetgum
- Specialized
1
8.3
A large group of plants with small flowers in umbrella-like bunches, like carrot and parsley
- Specialized
1
5.8
A group of mainly tropical plants like coconut and date trees with large leaves
1
6.9
A family made up of a married couple and their children, sometimes including one partner's parents
- Specialized
1
8.8
A group of land tortoises with domed shells and short, heavy legs
1
5.6
A large family of flowering plants with bright, often unusual flowers found worldwide
- Specialized
1
9.9
A group of moths like tiger moths with bright colors and patterns
How Close
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38
3.5
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'.