extended family

English

Noun

extended family (plural extended families)

1. A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.

   Synonym: (New Zealand) whanau

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Biology Codex entry:

     Angaran females typically give birth to several young who require support and supervision, resulting in large extended families that become accustomed to living and working together.

   • 2020 February 10, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     The old men nap on couches, waiting for dessert. It’s the extended family in all its tangled, loving, exhausting glory.

Coordinate terms

• immediate family
• joint family
• nuclear family

Translations

family with additional members

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大家庭 (zh) (dàjiātíng)

• Finnish: suku (fi)
• Irish: teaghlach sínte m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whānau (mi)
• Polish: rodzina rozszerzona f
• Romanian: familie extinsă f
• Russian: да́льние ро́дственники (distant relatives) (dálʹnije ródstvenniki (distant relatives))
• Spanish: parientes lejanos m pl
• Yiddish: פֿאַרצווײַגטע משפּחה f (fartsvaygte mishpokhe)
• Yoruba: mọ̀lẹ́bí

See also

• alloparenting (ethology)