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[ English
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| seems | soul | French | #400: family | earth | live | hard |
[ Etymology
Latin familia, from famula (“‘servant’”).
[ Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfæməli/, SAMPA: /"f{m@li/
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- Hyphenation: fa·mi·ly
[ Noun
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family (countable and uncountable; plural families)
- (countable) A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.
- Her nuclear family was very small.
- (countable) A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
- (countable) A kin, tribe; also called extended family.
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
- (countable) A group of people who live together.
- This is my fraternity family at the university.
- (countable) A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
- Our company is one big happy family.
- (uncountable) Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group.
- They treated me like family.
- (countable, music) A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.
- the brass family
- the violin family
- (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- the Indo-European language family
- the Afro-Asiatic language family
[ Usage notes
In some dialects, family is used as a plurale tantum.
[ Translations
a father, mother and their sons and daughters
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a group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
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a kin, tribe
a rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
a taxon at this rank
a group of people who live together
a group of people similar to (2)
collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group
music: a group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production
linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
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