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Definitions for Family

[1] a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
[2] the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
[3] the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week.
[4] any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family.
[5] all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.
[6] Chiefly British . approved lineage, especially noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry: young men of family.
[7] a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants.
[8] the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the office family.
[9] a group of related things or people: the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements.
[10] a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families.
[11] a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer.
[12] Biology . the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.
[13] Slang . a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader.
[14] Linguistics . the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock(def 12) , subfamily(def 2) .
[15] Mathematics . a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter. a set.
[16] of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: a family trait.
[17] belonging to or used by a family: a family automobile; a family room.
[18] suitable or appropriate for adults and children: a family amusement park.
[19] not containing obscene language: a family newspaper.
[20] in a /the family way , pregnant.
[21] a primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its members (as modifier ) family quarrels ; a family unit
[22] one's wife or husband and one's children
[23] one's children, as distinguished from one's husband or wife
[24] a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor Compare extended family
[25] all the persons living together in one household
[26] any group of related things or beings, esp when scientifically categorized
[27] biology any of the taxonomic groups into which an order is divided and which contains one or more genera. Felidae (cat family) and Canidae (dog family) are two families of the order Carnivora
[28] ecology a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community
[29] a group of historically related languages assumed to derive from one original language
[30] mainly US an independent local group of the Mafia
[31] maths a group of curves or surfaces whose equations differ from a given equation only in the values assigned to one or more constants in each curve a family of concentric circles
[32] physics the isotopes, collectively, that comprise a radioactive series
[33] in the family way informal pregnant

Words related to Family

clan, tribe, group, people, house, household, folk, dynasty, strain, ancestry, parentage, brood, pedigree, inheritance, progeny, system, extraction, issue, relationship, kindred

Words nearby Family

familiarity breeds contempt, familiarize, familism, familist, famille, family, family allowance, family and medical leave act of 1993, family balancing, family bible, family circle

Origin of Family

1350–1400; Middle English familie < Latin familia a household, the slaves of a household, equivalent to famul(us ) servant, slave + -ia -y3

Other words from Family

an·ti·fam·i·ly , adjective
in·ter·fam·i·ly , adjective

Word origin for Family

C15: from Latin familia a household, servants of the house, from famulus servant

Synonyms for Family

clan, folk, group, house, household, people, tribe, ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, line, lineage, network, parentage, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, heirs and assigns, kith and kin, menage, ménage