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Family

noun

(pl. families)

A social unit living together. Synonyms: home, house, household, menage. "It was a good Christian household" , "I waited until the whole house was asleep" , "The teacher asked how many people made up his home"

Primary social group; parents and children. Synonym: family unit.

A collection of things sharing a common attribute. Synonyms: category, class.

People descended from a common ancestor. Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept.

A person having kinship with another or others. Synonyms: kin, kinsperson. "He's family"

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate.

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities. Synonym: fellowship. "The church welcomed new members into its fellowship"

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"Family" Quotes from Famous Books

... smoke issuing from the chimney. A boy came out and moved toward the spring with a pail in his hand. We shouted to him, when he turned and ran back into the house without pausing to reply. In a moment the whole family hastily rushed into the yard, and turned their faces toward us. If we had come down their chimney, they could not have seemed more astonished. Not making out what they said, I went down to the house, and learned to my ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... was writing the prescription, off went this patient's tongue, and ran through the topics of the day and into his family history again. ...

— A Simpleton • Charles Reade

... this that Ursula was to go to fetch her things from the house in Beldover. The removal had taken place, the family had gone. Gudrun had ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... come from their side of the family," said Mrs. Best. "Of course not! And it was wholly ...

— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... ever one of us capable of not lecturing on ethics or not preaching a sermon? Did not Sir Barnes Newcome lecture on the Family? Do we not all hold forth on the condition of the poor, the morality of the mining-market; the inferior ethics of the coloured races, and a hundred other lofty topics, warming our coat-tails at the glow of our own virtue? 'T is the fault of language which enables arrant scoundrels ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

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