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Revision as of 20:14, 4 October 2017
English
Etymology
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From Early Modern English familie (not in Middle English), from Latin familia (“the servants in a household, domestics collectively”), from famulus (“servant”) or famula (“female servant”), from Old Latin famul, of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from or cognate to Oscan famel (“servant”).
Pronunciation
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|lang=parameter) Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧ly
Noun
family (countable and uncountable, plural families)
- (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- Our family lives in town.
- (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America
- (countable) 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.
- (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
- Template:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V
- 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 […].
- (countable) 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.
- 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
- 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 […]
- (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- the brass family; the violin family
- (countable, 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.
Usage notes
- In some dialects, family is used as a plurale tantum.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (computing): C family
Translations
immediate family, e.g. parents and their children
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rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
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music: a group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production
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linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
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(used attributively)
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Adjective
family (not comparable)
- 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.
- (slang) Homosexual.
- I knew he was family when I first met him.
Translations
suitable for children and adults
(slang) homosexual
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Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun or adjective family
Related terms
See also
Statistics
Further reading
- “family”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “family”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “family”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “family”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Old Latin
- English terms derived from Oscan
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Taxonomy
- en:Music
- en:Linguistics
- Lao terms with redundant script codes
- Min Nan terms with redundant script codes
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English slang
- English basic words
- English collective nouns
- en:Collectives
- en:Family