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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

... themselves? There had been a time when Mrs. Berrington had been happy enough to be Miss Lina, even though she was the elder sister; and the girl liked to think there were still old friends—friends of the family, at home, for whom, even should she live to sixty years of spinsterhood, she would never be anything but Miss Laura. This was as good as Donna Anna or Donna Elvira: English people could never call people as other people did, for fear of ...

— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James

... than she could have believed possible for Irish flesh and blood. Imitative Pixie had caught "the air," and the good Therese had evidently taken immense pains with the costume in which her pupil should make her reappearance in the family circle. ...

— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... The family retired to rest at the usual hour of ten o'clock, and probably not long after that were wrapped in sound sleep. Not so poor Hilda. The mistress of the mansion slept far less than any of those who obeyed her orders. She invariably ...

— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston

... don't know the family news," said Kitty, with a beaming smile. "I have a new stepsister, just three weeks old, and Isabel is already far too much occupied with the higher education of women to attend to such trifles as notes. She generally ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... off the face of the earth. His son's story is that he went to New South Wales, married there and raised a family, and in the light of subsequent events that seems to be what most likely occurred. It is known, however, that the Cumshaws were in Victoria again somewhere about nineteen hundred and two or three, Albert being at that time ...

— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh

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