ALL meanings of family
fam·i·ly
F f - noun plural family the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family. 2
- noun plural family the spouse and children of one person: We're taking the family on vacation next week. 2
- noun family A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. 1
- noun plural family any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a socially prominent family. 1
- noun plural family all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor. 1
- noun plural family Chiefly British. approved lineage, especially noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry: young men of family. 1
- noun plural family a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants. 1
- noun plural family the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the office family. 1
- noun plural family a group of related things or people: the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements. 1
- noun plural family a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families. 1
- noun plural family a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer. 1
- noun plural family Biology. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera. 1
- noun plural family Slang. a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader. 1
- noun plural family Linguistics. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock (def 12), subfamily (def 2). 1
- noun plural family Mathematics. a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter. a set. 1
- adjective family of, relating to, or characteristic of a family: a family trait. 1
- adjective family belonging to or used by a family: a family automobile; a family room. 1
- adjective family suitable or appropriate for adults and children: a family amusement park. 1
- adjective family not containing obscene language: a family newspaper. 1
- idioms family in a / the family way, pregnant. 1
- noun family parents and children 1
- adjective family of a family 1
- adjective family belonging to a family 1
- adjective family pregnant 1
- noun family clan, extended 1
- noun family class, group 1
- noun family sb's children 1
- noun family lineage 1
- noun family biology: subdivision 1
- noun family linguistics: category 1
- noun family See collective noun. 1
- noun plural family a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family. 0
- countable noun family A family is a group of people who are related to each other, especially parents and their children. 0
- countable noun family When people talk about a family, they sometimes mean children. 0
- countable noun family When people talk about their family, they sometimes mean their ancestors. 0
- adjective family You can use family to describe things that belong to a particular family. 0
- adjective family You can use family to describe things that are designed to be used or enjoyed by both parents and children. 0
- countable noun family A family of animals or plants is a group of related species. 0
- noun family a primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its members 0
- noun family (as modifier) 0
- noun family one's wife or husband and one's children 0
- noun family one's children, as distinguished from one's husband or wife 0
- noun family a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor 0
- noun family all the persons living together in one household 0
- noun family any group of related things or beings, esp when scientifically categorized 0
- noun family 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 0
- noun family a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community 0
- noun family a group of historically related languages assumed to derive from one original language 0
- noun family an independent local group of the Mafia 0
- noun family 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 0