FAMILY
Family
In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence/shared consumption . Members of the immediate family may include a spouse, parent, brother and sister, son and daughter. Members of the extended family may include grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew and niece, or sibling-in-law. Close family members often share personal information with each other that they would not share with anyone else. A first-degree relative is one who shares 50% of your DNA, such as a full sibling, parent or progeny.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Family
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family
Noun
- A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.
- A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
- A kin, tribe; also called extended family.
- A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- A group of people who live together, or one that is similar to one that is related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, or members of one's intimate social group.
- 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 group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.
- A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
Adjective
- 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.
- Homosexual.
- I knew he was family when I first met him.
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