Family
Definition of Family
Fam´i`ly | n. | 1. | The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. | | 2. | The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. | | 3. | Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. | | 4. | Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage. | | 5. | Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family. | | 6. | A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family. | | 7. | (Biol.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In Zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.| Family circle | | See under Circle. |
| In a family way | | like one belonging to the family. |
|
Related Words
affiliation, agnate, ancestors, ancestry, animal kingdom, antonomasia, apparentation, ashram, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bloodline, body, branch, breed, brood, caste, children, clan, clannish, clansman, class, classification, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, colony, common ancestry, commonwealth, commune, community, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, deme, derivation, descendants, descent, diphyletic, direct, direct line, distaff side, distant relation, division, dynasty, economic class, enate, endogamous group, ethnic, extended family, extraction, family tree, female line, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folk, forebears, forefathers, fruit, genealogical, genealogy, genetic, genotype, genre, gens, gentile, gentilic, genus, german, get, glossology, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, hearth, heirs, home, homefolks, hostages to fortune, house, household, inheritors, issue, kids, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kingdom, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship group, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, line of descent, lineage, lineal, little ones, male line, matriclan, menage, moiety, nation, national, near relation, new generation, next of kin, nomenclature, nuclear family, offspring, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, parentage, patriclan, pedigree, people, phratria, phratry, phyle, phyletic, phylogenetic, phylum, place-names, place-naming, plant kingdom, polyonymy, posterity, progenitors, progeny, race, racial, relations, relatives, rising generation, section, seed, sept, series, set, settlement, sib, sibling, side, social class, society, sons, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, stem, stirp, stirps, stock, strain, subcaste, subclass, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, succession, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, sword side, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, totem, totemic, treasures, tribal, tribesman, trinomialism, type, uterine kin, variety, younglings, youngsters
|
Browse
Falx
Famble
Fame
Fameless
familial
Familiar
Familiar spirit
familiarise
Familiarity
Familiarization
Familiarize
familiarized
familiarizing
Familiarly
Familiarness
Familiary
Familism
Familist
Familistery
Familistic
-Family-
Family altar
Family circle
Family man
Family of curves
Famine
Famine fever
Famish
Famishment
Famosity
Famous
Famoused
Famously
Famousness
Famular
Famulate
Famulist
Fan
Fan blower
Fan cricket
Fan light
|