Engels Woord van de dag

family

gezin

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family

1. gezin

Engels > Engels

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.

Nederlands > Engels

gezin

1. n-n. immediate family or nuclear family

Men zegt vaak dat het gezin de hoeksteen van de samenleving is.

It is often said that the nuclear family is the cornerstone of society.

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

Is this your family?
    Is dit uw familie?
I come from a big family.
    Ik kom uit een groot gezin.
My whole family is doing well.
    Mijn hele familie maakt het goed.
Everyone in my family gets up early.
    Iedereen in mijn gezin staat vroeg op.
My family lives here.
    Hier woont mijn familie.

Vorige woorden herzien

May	seal	ruler	sixty-four
glider	sauce	eight	stationery
sixty-nine	anaesthetic	fence	cable car
bark	wave	minute	skin

Willekeurig

leaf	lizard	oats	exhaust pipe
bathroom	pliers	dress	submarine
fifty-six	apple	canoe	nose
waterfall	bus	high	corner

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