Engelsk substantiv: family | |||
1. | family (om gruppe) a social unit living together | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | home, house, household, menage | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | social unit, unit | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | broken home, conjugal family, extended family, foster family, foster home, menage a trois, nuclear family | ||
2. | family (om gruppe) primary social group; parents and children | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He wanted to have a good job before starting a family. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | family unit | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | couple, man and wife, marriage, married couple, match, mates | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | Bronte sisters, Marx Brothers | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | child, kid, parent, sib, sibling | ||
3. | family (om gruppe) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | There are two classes of detergents. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | category, class | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | brass family, conjugation, declension, denomination, grammatical category, histocompatibility complex, paradigm, sex, stamp, substitution class, syntactic category, violin family, woodwind family | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | superphylum | ||
4. | family (om gruppe) people descended from a common ancestor | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | dynasty, gens, homefolk, house, name, people | ||
5. | family (om person) a person having kinship with another or others | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He's kin. He's family. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | kin, kinsperson | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | relation, relative | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | affine | ||
6. | family (om gruppe) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Sharks belong to the fish family. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 | ||
Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, genus, Reoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, subfamily, Togaviridae, tribe | ||
Tilhører disse overordnede uttrykkene | order | ||
Overordnet kategori | biological science, biology | ||
7. | family (om gruppe) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | crime syndicate, mob, syndicate | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | gangdom, gangland, organized crime | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | Cosa Nostra, Maffia, Mafia | ||
8. | family (om gruppe) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family. The church welcomed new members into its fellowship. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | fellowship | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | association | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | koinonia | ||