family

noun

1. 1

   A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

   Our family lives in town.

   To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.

   Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

   America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

2. 2

   A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.

3. 3

   An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

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4. 4

   A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

   The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

   We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!

5. 5

   Members of one's family collectively.

   I have a lot of family in Australia.

   He has a sister, but no other family.

6. 6

   A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

   crime family, Mafia family

   This is my fraternity family at the university.

   Our company is one big happy family.

7. 7

   slangA (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. The gay community.

   […]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.

8. 8

   Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

   Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.

9. 9

   Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

   Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.

   Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.

   When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]

   Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name for each individual[…]

10. 10

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

    Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

    The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…].

11. 11

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.

    Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.

12. 12

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

    the brass family; the violin family

13. 13

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

    the Indo-European family

    the Afroasiatic family

adjective

1. 1

   Suitable for children and adults.

   It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.

   Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.

   This is a family restaurant, stop making out!

2. 2

   slangHomosexual.

   I knew he was family when I first met him.

Forms

plural

families