English dictionary
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English noun: family | |||
| 1. | family (group) a social unit living together | ||
| Samples | He moved his family to Virginia. It was a good Christian household. I waited until the whole house was asleep. The teacher asked how many people made up his home. | ||
| Synonyms | home, house, household, menage | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | social unit, unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | broken home, conjugal family, extended family, foster family, foster home, menage a trois, nuclear family | ||
| 2. | family (group) primary social group; parents and children | ||
| Samples | He wanted to have a good job before starting a family. | ||
| Synonyms | family unit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | couple, man and wife, marriage, married couple, match, mates | ||
| Instance hyponym | Bronte sisters, Marx Brothers | ||
| Member holonym | child, kid, parent, sib, sibling | ||
| 3. | family (group) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | ||
| Samples | There are two classes of detergents. | ||
| Synonyms | category, class | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brass family, conjugation, declension, denomination, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, paradigm, sex, stamp, substitution class, syntactic category, violin family, woodwind family | ||
| Member holonym | superphylum | ||
| 4. | family (group) people descended from a common ancestor | ||
| Samples | His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower. | ||
| Synonyms | family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dynasty, gens, homefolk, house, name, people | ||
| 5. | family (person) a person having kinship with another or others | ||
| Samples | He's kin. He's family. | ||
| Synonyms | kin, kinsperson | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | relation, relative | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | affine | ||
| 6. | family (group) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | ||
| Samples | Sharks belong to the fish family. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amphibian family, arthropod family, bacteria family, bird family, Bittacidae, chordate family, coelenterate family, ctenophore family, dicot family, echinoderm family, Endamoebidae, family Bittacidae, family Endamoebidae, family Panorpidae, fern family, Filoviridae, fish family, form family, fungus family, liliopsid family, magnoliopsid family, mammal family, mollusk family, monocot family, moss family, Panorpidae, plant family, protoctist family, reptile family, worm family | ||
| Member holonym | Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, genus, Reoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, subfamily, Togaviridae, tribe | ||
| Member meronym | order | ||
| Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
| 7. | family (group) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | ||
| Synonyms | crime syndicate, mob, syndicate | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gangdom, gangland, organized crime | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Cosa Nostra, Maffia, Mafia | ||
| 8. | family (group) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | ||
| Samples | The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family. The church welcomed new members into its fellowship. | ||
| Synonyms | fellowship | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | association | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | koinonia | ||
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