extended family
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- noun
- /ɪkˈstɛndɪd ˈfæmɪli/
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familia extensa
- During the family reunion, we gathered with our extended family, including cousins and grandparents.
- extended family members
- live in extended families
- nuclear and extended family
Louis has an extended family that they're very tight knit.
- Louis has an extended family that they're very tight knit.
- Parents, partners, adult children, extended family, people you work with.
- So me and my wife and our extended family were pretty much born and raised in LA.
- And, you know, I have my family, my my extended family that all supports me, great friends.
- And he is the slowest member of his extended family.
- After a while, it was just about everyone had someone in their extended family who lost a child.
- So I I had a fair amount of support from my father's extended family.
- I mean, I was going to freaking Disney World with my extended family.
- So I was brought up in a fundamentalist Christian extended family, not just the nuclear family, extended family.
- Where I have seen this happen in the most pronounced way is either in extended family systems or in larger friend groups.
Examples
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When Lesa celebrated her most recent birthday, many of her extended family were present.
Academic text (1990) -
So me and my wife and our extended family were pretty much born and raised in LA.
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Really wonderful parents, pretty big extended family, good public schools.
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And so he was with an extended family and he actually loved school.
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After a while, it was just about everyone had someone in their extended family who lost a child.
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Most live out their lives within the extended families into which they are born.
Academic text (2008) -
Your extended family, your immediate family... you love all of your family, yes?
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You've been my extended family since I was 10 years old.
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Grandparents and other extended family members were important characters in the participants' grief stories.
Academic text (2008) -
Careful money management and prudent planning allowed many extended families to create considerable wealth.
Academic text (2011)
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Morphology
The meaning 'a family group including other relatives' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'extended' (broad in scope) with 'family' (people related), so a learner who knows both words can infer the referent. This adjective+noun composition is common cross-linguistically and reflects a straightforward scope extension of 'family' (beyond the nuclear unit), making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The expression extended family comes from the image of a family that is extended, like a tree with many branches where grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are part of the same group. So, extended family means the small 'nuclear family' plus other relatives who live nearby or help each other.