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.

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family

Noun

  1. A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.
  2. A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
  3. A kin, tribe; also called extended family.
  4. A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.
  8. A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Adjective

  1. 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.
  2. Conservative, traditional.
    The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
  3. Homosexual.
    I knew he was family when I first met him.


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