family
527
2.4
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli/
- But I do hope you'll consider joining the Lakeside family next summer.
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Examples
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So my theme this year for all my family is travel.
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The project involved the entire family, and it might have been an unbearable drudgery.
Fiction book (1990) -
"The Mayor sent word to the family -- they better leave," she later wrote.
Academic text (2011) -
And meanwhile, the rest of the family is playing in the lake.
Academic text (2011) -
When all the men in my family and parish started to join up, it just seemed the thing to do.
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Oh, I had a retreat here a few years back and they made everyone feel like family.
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A final common element in most of these treatment programs is family involvement in the treatment.
Academic text (1999) -
I'd like to say what a beautiful addition you're going to make to our family.
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Students who perceive their cohorts as a family will take on the responsibility to care for their peers.
Academic text (2011) -
The organization brings together a diverse family of people united by a common goal.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A group of people who work together to reach a shared goal
∞
1.0
A number of people or things seen as one unit
∞
2.8
A group of people who live in the same area, like a neighborhood
∞
2.7
A group of people who work together for a common goal
849
2.8
A group of people who share a common purpose or interest
436
3.3
A group of people with shared interests
187
5.3
A group of criminals who run illegal businesses together
56
1.7
A group of people gathered for a short time to do something
51
7.3
A group of people who run illegal businesses together
38
3.9
A group of people who share the same interests or activities
18
2.7
People who meet, talk, and feel they belong together
10
4.5
An organized group of criminals who work together to do illegal things
2
6.6
A group of people who act together for a shared purpose
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 United
Surface Forms
Etymology
Family once named a household where people trusted and supported each other, so the word came to mean any close group that acts like a household. That's why people call a loyal company or even a criminal organization a family.