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fam·i·ly  (fm-l, fml)

n. pl. fam·i·lies

1.

a. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.

b. Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and reside usually in the same dwelling place.

2. All the members of a household under one roof.

3. A group of persons sharing common ancestry. See Usage Note at collective noun.

4. Lineage, especially distinguished lineage.

5. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.

6.

a. A group of like things; a class.

b. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.

7. Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera. See Table at taxonomy.

8. Linguistics A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.

9. Mathematics A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.

10. Chemistry A group of elements with similar chemical properties.

11. Chemistry A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.

adj.

1. Of or having to do with a family: family problems.

2. Being suitable for a family: family movies.

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[Middle English familie, from Latin familia, household, servants of a household, from famulus, servant.]

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family [ˈfæmɪlɪ ˈfæmlɪ]

n pl -lies

1. (Sociology)

a.  a primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its members

b.  (as modifier) family quarrels a family unit

2. one's wife or husband and one's children

3. one's children, as distinguished from one's husband or wife

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor Compare extended family

5. all the persons living together in one household

6. any group of related things or beings, esp when scientifically categorized

7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology any of the taxonomic groups into which an order is divided and which contains one or more genera. Felidae (cat family) and Canidae (dog family) are two families of the order Carnivora

8. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Ecology a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community

9. (Linguistics) a group of historically related languages assumed to derive from one original language

10. (Law) Chiefly US an independent local group of the Mafia

11. (Mathematics) Maths a group of curves or surfaces whose equations differ from a given equation only in the values assigned to one or more constants in each curve a family of concentric circles

12. (Physics / General Physics) Physics the isotopes, collectively, that comprise a radioactive series

in the family way Informal pregnant

[from Latin familia a household, servants of the house, from famulus servant]

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family  (fm-l)

A group of organisms ranking above a genus and below an order. The names of families end in -ae, a plural ending in Latin. In the animal kingdom, family names end in -idae, as in Canidae (dogs and their kin), while those in the plant kingdom usually end in -aceae, as in Rosaceae (roses and their kin). See Table at taxonomy.

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Family an assembly of objects with some common feature; a body of servants in a house; the members of a family. See also clan, set.

Examples: family of curves, 1741; of gladiators; of languages, 1875; of legends; of myths; of servants, 1722; of thieves, 1749; of yews, 1731.

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family - First referred to the servants of a household and then to both the servants and the descendants of a common ancestor. It comes from Latin familia, "household; household servants," which came from another Latin term, famulus, "servant." It was not until 1667 that the term was used specifically for parents and their children.

See also related terms for servants.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	family - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" household, menage, home, house broken home - a family in which the parents have separated or divorced conjugal family, nuclear family - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner extended family - a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster family - the family of a fosterling foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a trois - household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
	2.	family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" family unit kin group, kindred, kinship group, clan, kin, tribe - group of people related by blood or marriage mates, couple, match - a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago" man and wife, married couple, marriage - two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" child, kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" parent - a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian sib, sibling - a person's brother or sister
	3.	family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" category, class grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties substitution class, paradigm - the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole brass family - (music) the family of brass instruments violin family - (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments woodwind family - (music) the family of woodwind instruments stamp - a type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed" sex - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes" declension - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin" conjugation - a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms denomination - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations" histocompatibility complex - a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response superphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
	4.	family - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folk people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day" house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York" dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
	5.	family - a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" kin, kinsperson affine - (anthropology) kin by marriage relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
	6.	family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" Bunyaviridae - a large family of arboviruses that affect a wide range of hosts (mainly vertebrates and arthropods) Filoviridae - a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) Togaviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods Flaviviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods Arenaviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods Rhabdoviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods Reoviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods bacteria family - a family of bacteria protoctist family - any of the families of Protoctista Endamoebidae, family Endamoebidae - a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract fish family - any of various families of fish chordate family - any family in the phylum Chordata bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings amphibian family - any family of amphibians reptile family - a family of reptiles arthropod family - any of the arthropods mammal family - a family of mammals coelenterate family - a family of coelenterates ctenophore family - a family of ctenophores worm family - a family of worms mollusk family - a family of mollusks family Panorpidae, Panorpidae - a family of insects of the order Mecoptera Bittacidae, family Bittacidae - a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera echinoderm family - a family of echinoderms biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations order - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families form family - (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure subfamily - (biology) a taxonomic category below a family tribe - (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily genus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species moss family - a family of mosses liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination fungus family - includes lichen families plant family - a family of plants fern family - families of ferns and fern allies
	7.	family - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities crime syndicate, syndicate, mob gangdom, gangland, organized crime - underworld organizations Cosa Nostra, Maffia, Mafia - a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
	8.	family - an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship" fellowship association - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association" koinonia - Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community

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family

noun

1. relations, people, children, issue, relatives, household, folk (informal), offspring, descendants, brood, kin, nuclear family, progeny, kindred, next of kin, kinsmen, ménage, kith and kin, your nearest and dearest, kinsfolk, your own flesh and blood His family are completely behind him, whatever he decides.

2. children, kids (informal), offspring, little ones, munchkins (informal, chiefly U.S.), littlies (Austral. informal) Are you going to have a family?

3. ancestors, forebears, parentage, forefathers, house, line, race, blood, birth, strain, tribe, sept, clan, descent, dynasty, pedigree, extraction, ancestry, lineage, genealogy, line of descent, stemma, stirps Her family came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century.

4. species, group, class, system, order, kind, network, genre, classification, subdivision, subclass foods in the cabbage family, such as Brussels sprouts

Related words
adjective familial

Quotations
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them" [Desmond Tutu address at enthronement as archbishop of Cape Town]
"The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape" [Dodie Smith Dear Octopus]
"All happy families are alike, but every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way" [Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina]

Proverbs
"Blood is thicker than water"

Translations

family [ˈfæmɪlɪ]

A. N (= close relatives, group of animals) → familia f
she's one of the family → es como de la familia
do you have any family? (= relatives) → ¿tiene usted parientes?; (= children) → ¿tiene usted hijos?
to run in the family → ser cosa de familia
to be in the family way (o.f.) → estar en estado de buena esperanza
to get or put a girl in the family way (o.f.) → dejar encinta a una joven

B. CPD [jewels] → de la familia; [dinner, resemblance] → de familia; [Bible] → familiar
family allowance N (Brit) (formerly) → ayuda f familiar
family business N → negocio m familiar
family butcher N → carnicero m doméstico
family credit N (Brit) → ayuda f familiar
Family Division N (Brit) (Jur) sala del High Court que entiende de derecho de familia
family doctor N → médico/a m/f de cabecera
family friend N → amigo/a m/f de la familia
family hotel N → hotel m familiar
family income N → ingresos mpl familiares
family life N → vida f doméstica
family man N (= having family) → padre m de familia; (= home-loving) → hombre m casero or de su casa
family name N → apellido m
family pet N → animal m doméstico
family planning N → planificación f familiar
family planning clinic N → centro m de planificación familiar
family practice N (US) (Med) (= work) → medicina f general; (= place) → consulta f
family therapy N → terapia f familiar
family tree N → árbol m genealógico

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family [ˈfæmli ˈfæmɪli]

n (= relatives) → famille f
the Cooke family → la famille Cooke
a family of five → une famille de cinq personnes
to start a family → fonder une famille

modif [background, history] → familial(e); [income, budget] → familial(e); [car] → familial(e); [holiday] → en famille; [relationship, ties] → de famille; [member] → de la famille; [home] → de famille; [business, firm] → familial
the family dog → le chien de la famille family album, family friend, family life
family album n (= photo album) → album m de famille
family allowance n (British) → allocations fpl familiales
family circle n → cercle m familial
family credit n (British) → complément m familial
Family Crisis Intervention Unit n (US) → police-secours intervenant en cas de drames familiaux)f >
family doctor n → médecin mf de famille
family friend n → ami(e) m/f de la famille
family life n → vie f de famille
family man n [family men] (pl)
he's a family man → il aime la vie de famille
family-minded [ˌfæmɪliˈmaɪndɪd] adj
to be family-minded → avoir le sens de la famille
family name n → nom m de famille
family planning n → planning m familial
family planning clinic n → centre m de planning familial
family practitioner n (US) → généraliste mf
family room n

(US) (in house) → salle réservée à la famille plutôt qu'aux invités)f de séjour >

(British) (in pub) salle autorisée aux enfants; (in hotel) → chambre f familiale
family-size packet n → paquet m familial
family tree n → arbre m généalogique
family values npl → valeurs fpl familiales

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family

n

→ Familie f; (including cousins, aunts etc) → Verwandtschaft f; (= lineage) → Familie f, → Haus nt, → Geschlecht nt (geh); to start a family → eine Familie gründen; they plan to add to their family → sie planen Familienzuwachs; has he any family? → hat er Familie?; it runs in the family → das liegt in der Familie; of good family → aus guter Familie, aus gutem Hause; he’s one of the family → er gehört zur Familie; with just the immediate family → im engsten Familienkreis; a family of four → eine vierköpfige Familie

(of plants, animals, languages etc) → Familie f; the family of man → die Menschheit

attr → Familien-; family business → Familienunternehmen nt; a family friend → ein Freund/eine Freundin des Hauses or der Familie; the family house → das Haus der Familie; a family house → ein Einfamilienhaus nt; the family silver → das Tafelsilber; she’s in the family way (inf) → sie ist in anderen Umständen; family conference → Familienrat m; family resemblance → Familienähnlichkeit f; family values → Familienwerte pl, → familiäre Werte pl

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family:

family allowance

n (dated) → ˜ Kindergeld nt

family business

n → Familienbetrieb m

family butcher

n D. Crosby, Family Butcher → D. Crosby, Fleischermeister; our/the family → unsere/die Stammfleischerei

family circle

n

(= family members) → Familienkreis m

(US Theat) → zweiter Rang

family company

n → Familienunternehmen nt → or -betrieb m

family credit

n (Brit) Sozialleistung für Geringverdiener, um das Familieneinkommen auf einen Mindestbetrag anzuheben

Family Division

n (Brit Jur) für Familienrecht zuständige Abteilung des obersten Gerichts, → ˜ Familiengericht nt

family doctor

n → Hausarzt m → /-ärztin f

Family Health Services Authority

n (Brit) regionale Gesundheitsbehörde, → ˜ Gesundheitsamt nt

family hotel

n → Familienpension f

Family Income Supplement

n (dated) → Beihilfe f → (zum Lebensunterhalt) (für Familien)

family man

n (home-loving) → häuslich veranlagter Mann; (with a family) → Familienvater m

family name

n → Familienname m, → Nachname m

family planning

n → Familienplanung f

family planning clinic

n → Familienberatungsstelle f

family reunion

n → Familientreffen nt

family room

n

(esp US: in house) → Wohnzimmer nt

(Brit) (in pub) für Kinder zugelassener Raum in einem Lokal (in hotel) → Familienzimmer nt

family-size

adj → in Haushaltsgröße; car, packet → Familien-; house → Einfamilien-

family tree

n → Stammbaum m

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family [ˈfæmɪlɪ]

1. n (gen) → famiglia
it runs in the family → è di famiglia
she's quite one of the family → è come se facesse parte della famiglia

2. adj (jewels, life, business) → di famiglia, familiare

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family

n family [ˈfӕməli]

1 (singular or plural) a man, his wife and their children These houses were built for families; The (members of the) Smith family are all very athletic; (also adjective ) a family holiday. gesin, familie عائِلَه семейство rodina; rodinný familie; familie- die Familie, Familien... οικογένεια, οικογενειακός familia pere(kond) خانواده perhe famille מִשפָּחָה कुटुम्ब familija, obitelj; obiteljski család; (melléknévként) családi keluarga fjölskylda famiglia 家族 가족 šeima; šeimyninis ģimene; ģimenes- keluarga gezin (kjerne)familie rodzina família fa­milie семья rodina; rodinný družina porodica familj, familje- ครอบครัว aile 家庭 родина, сім'я ماں باپ بھائی بہن پر مشتمل کنبہ gia đình 家庭

2 a group of people related to each other, including cousins, grandchildren etc He comes from a wealthy family; (also adjective ) the family home. familie نَسْل، آل фамилия rodina; rodinný familie; familie- die Familie οικογένεια familia suguvõsa فامیل suku famille מִשפָּחָה परिवार šira obitelj, porodica; obiteljski család; (melléknévként) családi keluarga ættingjar, skyldmenni famiglia 一族 친척 šeima, giminė dzimta keluarga familie familie, slekt rodzina, ród família familie род rodina; rodinný rodbina, rodbinski familija familj, släkt ญาติ ๆ aile 家族 родина, рід رشتہ دار gia tộc 家族

3 the children of a man and his wife When I get married I should like a large family. gesin أُسْرَه домочадие rodina familie die Familie οικογένεια familia järeltulijad خانه وار vanhempien lapset famille יְלָדִים परिवार, गृहस्थ potomstvo, obitelj család keluarga afkvæmi, börn famiglia 子供 (한 가족의) 아이 šeimyna (vienas ģimenes) bērni un sieva keluarga gezin barn rodzina família familie дети rodina družina porodica familj ลูก ๆ aile 子女 діти کسی شخص کے بچے اور زوجہ con cái 子女

4 a group of plants, animals, languages etc that are connected in some way In spite of its name, a koala bear is not a member of the bear family. familie, groep فَصيلَه نَباتيَّه أو حَيَوانيَّه род čeleď, druh, třída familie; -familie die Familie οικογένεια (ζώων) familia sugukond تیره heimo famille מִשפָּחָה एक-दूसरे से जुड़े पौधे rod, porodica család keluarga ætt famiglia 科 (동식물의 분류에서) 과 šeima (dzīvnieku, augu) dzimta; (valodu) saime keluarga geslacht slekt, familie rodzina família familie семейство čeľaď rod porodica familj ตระกูล familya, tür 科 родина ایک دوسرے سے تعلق رکھنے والے جانوروں یا زبانوں کا مجموعہ (sinh vật học), (ngôn ngữ học) họ 科

family planning

controlling or limiting the number of children that people have especially by using a means of contraception a family planning clinic. gesinsbeplanning, geboortebeplanning تَنْظيم العائِلَه семейно планиране plánované rodičovství familieplanlægning die Familienplanung οικογενειακός προγραμματισμός planificación familiar pereplaneerimine تنظیم خانواده perhesuunnittelu limitation des naissances תִכנוּן מִשפָּחָה परिवार नियोजन primjena kontracepcije radi ograničenja broja djece családtervezés berencana stjórn/takmörkun á fæðingum controllo delle nascite 家族計画 가족 계획 gimstamumo reguliavimas ģimenes plānošana perancang keluarga geboortenregeling barnebegrensing, familieplanlegging planowanie rodziny planeamento familiar planning familial контроль над рождаемостью plánované rodičovstvo načrtovanje družine planiranje porodice familjeplanering การวางแผนครอบครัว aile planlaması 計劃生育 планування сім'ї خاندانی منصوبہ بندی kế hoạch hoá gia đình 计划生育

family tree

(a plan showing) a person's ancestors and relations. stamboom, geslagsregister شَجَرَة العائِلَه родословно дърво rodokmen stamtræ der Stammbaum οικογενειακό δέντρο árbol genealógico sugupuu شجره نامه sukupuu arbre généalogique אִילָן יוֹחָסִין वंश वृक्ष obiteljsko stablo családfa silsilah ættartala albero genealogico 家系図 가계도 genealogijos medis ciltskoks salah-silah keluarga stamboom stamtre drzewo genealogiczne árvore genealógica arbore genealogic генеалогическое дерево rodokmeň rodovnik porodično stablo stamträd, släktträd แผนภูมิแสดงลำดับเครือญาติของวงศ์ตระกูล soy ağacı 家系圖 родовід شجرئہ نسب sơ đồ gia hệ 家系图

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family → عائلة rodina familie Familie οικογένεια familia perhe famille obitelj famiglia 家族 가족 familie familie rodzina família семья familj ครอบครัว aile gia đình 家庭