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Word: family (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Conservative, traditonal.
  • slang Homosexual.
  • Suitable for children and adults.

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Noun:

  • countable A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called ''nuclear family''.
  • countable A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
  • countable A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
  • countable A group of people who live together.
  • countable A kin, tribe; also called ''extended family''.
  • 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.
  • biology|taxonomy A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  • linguistics A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
  • music A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.
  • Used attributively.
  • uncountable Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group.

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