Word: family Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia. Pronunciation: /ˈfæm(ɪ)li/, /ˈfaməlɪj/, /ˈfamɪlɪj/, /ˈfamlɪj/, /ˈfaːməlɪj/ 1. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our family lives in town. Example: 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. 2. An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality. Example: We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation! 4. Members of one's family collectively. Labels: uncountable Example: I have a lot of family in Australia. Example: He has a sister, but no other family. 5. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: crime family, Mafia family Example: This is my fraternity family at the university. 6. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: […]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say. 7. Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage. Labels: uncountable Example: 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. 8. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family. Example: Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important. 9. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae. Example: 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[…]. 10. 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. Labels: countable Example: Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S. 11. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the brass family; the violin family 12. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the Indo-European family Example: the Afroasiatic family