family meaning
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[ˈfæməli] [ˈfæmli] 
US UK WFamily
- In the context of human society, a family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence and/or shared consumption (see Nurture kinship).
- In most societies, the family is the principal institution for the socialization of children.
- "Family" is used metaphorically to create more inclusive categories such as community, nationhood, global village and humanism.
- Genealogy is a field which aims to trace family lineages through history.
- NounPLfamilies
- NC A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- Our family lives in town.
- NC An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- NC 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.
- NC (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
- NC 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.
- NC (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- the brass family; the violin family
- NC (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family
- Used attributively.
- The dog was kept as a family pet.
- For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.
- NC A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- Adjective
- 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.
- Conservative, traditional.
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
- SLA Homosexual.
- I knew he was family when I first met him.
- Suitable for children and adults.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The Kampung Spirit … is a sense of extended family and camaraderie that stems from working together as a community.
- The family leaves over enough food from Sunday dinner for Monday lunch and dinner.
- The family were sitting round the table, having their tea.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
- Family affiliations are indicated for nonpinniped species.
- Families doing it tough will receive more assistance from the government.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The main components of the diterpenic fraction are acids indicating a resin from a plant belonging to the conifer family.
- We spent each of the past five Easters together as a family.
- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of family in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Collective nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Collective nouns
- Adjectives
- en familyish
- en familyism
- en familyist
- en familyless
- en familylike
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "family" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a collective noun, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.