family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fămĭli
enpr: fămli
ipa: /ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li/
ipa: /ˈfæ.m(ə.)li/
ipa: /ˈfæ.mɪ.li/
ipa: /ˈfɛ.m(ɘ.)li/
rhymes: -æmɪli
Forms: form: families
Etymology: From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
Senses: examples: text: Our family lives in town.
text: To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 200:
text: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
text: They’re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they’ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.
ref: 2018 May 6, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
glosses: A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
examples: ref: 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America:
glosses: An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
examples: text: The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
text: We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
glosses: A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
examples: text: I have a lot of family in Australia.
text: He has a sister, but no other family.
glosses: Members of one's family collectively.
examples: text: crime family, Mafia family
text: This is my fraternity family at the university.
text: Our company is one big happy family.
glosses: A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
examples: text: […]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.
ref: 1982 July 15, Gloria Godqueen, “What's in a card”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 12, number 28, page 7:
topics: LGBT
glosses: A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
The gay community.
examples: text: Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
examples: text: Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
text: When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]
ref: 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete, page 262:
text: Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name for each individual[…]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xi:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
text: The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…].
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: 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 category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
synonyms: familia
examples: text: Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: 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 collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
examples: text: the brass family;  the violin family
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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 instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
examples: text: the Indo-European family
text: the Afroasiatic family
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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 languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
synonyms: language family
Synonyms: sense: relatives
word: flesh and blood
word: kin
word: kinfolk
word: fam
word: class
Hyponyms: sense: relatives
word: nuclear family
sense: relatives
word: immediate family
sense: relatives
word: extended family
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: C family
Derived terms: word: all in the family
word: aluminium family
word: antifamily
word: baby of the family
word: Batfamily
word: befamilied
word: biofamily
word: birthfamily
word: blended family
word: chosen family
word: county family
word: epifamily
word: ERM protein family
word: Ewing family
word: extended family
word: fam
word: familect
word: familied
word: familiocracy
word: familist
word: family affair
word: family allowance
word: family annihilation
word: family annihilator
word: family Bible
word: family business
word: family car
word: family celebrant
word: family circle
word: family court
word: Family Day
word: family dissident
word: family doctor
word: family friend
word: family-friendliness
word: family-friendly
word: family ganging
word: family grouping
word: family guy
word: family heirloom
word: family historian
word: family history
word: family home evening
word: familyhood
word: familyish
word: familyism
word: familyist
word: family jewels
word: family law
word: family leave
word: familyless
word: familylike
word: family man
word: family meal
word: family medicine
word: family member
word: familymoon
word: family name
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: family of curves
word: family of orientation
word: family of procreation
topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: family of sets
topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: family of subsets
word: family pajamas
word: family physician
word: family planning
word: family pole
word: family rebel
word: family rebellion
word: family resemblance
word: family restaurant
word: family reunification
word: family reunion
word: family romance
word: family roof
word: family room
word: family-run
word: family size
word: family-sized
word: family-style
word: family tree
word: family unit
word: family valuer
word: family-valuer
word: family values
word: family wage
word: familywise
word: family woman
word: fampool
word: first family
word: foster family
word: found family
word: framily
word: gene family
word: glitter family
word: godfamily
word: gold star family
word: hamily
word: Helly family
word: Holy Family
word: host family
word: ichnofamily
word: immediate family
word: in a family way
word: infrafamily
word: interfamily
word: in the family way
word: intrafamily
word: joint family
word: keep it in the family
word: language family
word: live with one's wife's family
word: macrofamily
word: merfamily
word: multifamily
word: multigene family
word: natural family planning
word: nonfamily
word: nuclear family
word: nuke family
word: one big happy family
word: oofamily
word: pearly family
word: polyfamily
word: profamily
word: rainbow family
word: retrofamily
word: royal family
word: run in the family
word: second family
word: sell the family silver
word: single-parent family
word: Sperner family
word: start a family
word: stem family
word: stepfamily
word: suprafamily
word: the family that lays together stays together
word: the family that prays together stays together
word: the family that sleeps together keeps together
word: underfamily
word: unfamilied
word: Wood family
word: word family
word: working family
Related terms: familial
familiar
familiarity
familicide