family

Pronunciation: /ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

The English word “family” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

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.
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
Members of one's family collectively.
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
The gay community.
Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
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.
A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred and hād. Doublet of familia.

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