family | |
1. n. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. | |
Our family lives in town. | |
2. n. An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. | |
3. n. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. | |
crime family, Mafia family | |
This is my fraternity family at the university. | |
Our company is one big happy family. | |
4. n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. | |
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae. | |
5. n. 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. | |
Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family. | |
6. n. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. | |
the brass family; the violin family | |
7. n. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. | |
the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family | |
8. n. Used attributively. | |
The dog was kept as a family pet. | |
For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic. | |
9. adj. Suitable for children and adults. | |
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant. | |
Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies. | |
10. adj. Conservative, traditional. | |
The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality. | |
11. adj. (slang) Homosexual. | |
I knew he was family when I first met him. | |