Family

What do we mean by family?

A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children. noun

The children of one of these groups. noun

A group of persons related by descent or marriage. noun

People in the same line of descent; lineage. noun

A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra. noun

A group of like things; a class. noun

A group of individuals derived from a common stock. noun

A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera. noun

A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family. noun

A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation. noun

A group of elements with similar chemical properties. noun

A vertical column in the periodic table of elements. noun

Any of the three generations of elementary fermions. noun

Of or having to do with a family. adjective

Being suitable for a family. adjective

(in the family way) Pregnant. idiom

In petrography the term is used by Rosenbusch to embrace igneous rocks which are alike in composition and texture: as, the family of syenitic rocks; the family of essexite; the family of phonolitic rocks. In the quantitative system of classification (1902) it is suggested that the term be applied to a group of igneous rocks which are developed from the same parent magma by processes of differentiation — that is, any group of consanguineous rocks. noun

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.

An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

Lineage, especially an honorable one

A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

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.

A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Used attributively.

A group of people, usually of the same blood (but do not have to be), who genuinely love, trust, care about, and look out for each other. Not to be mistaken with relatives sharing the same household who hate eachother. REAL family is a bondage that cannot be broken by any means. Urban Dictionary

It's not necessarily about who's blood you have, or who you're forced to spend the holidays with. It's about people you love and they love you back. You'll always be there for your family when they need you, and they'll always be there for you. Blood related or not. Urban Dictionary

A bunch of people who hate each other and eat dinner together. Urban Dictionary

A dysfunctional group of narcissistic morons hell bent on making you insane. Urban Dictionary

People you love and love you back, not neccessarily blood or biological, but you trust them and they trust you, and they take care of you and you take care of them. Urban Dictionary

A bunch of people who are forced to talk to each other. Half the people want to strangle each other. You often like the pet better than you like the people. The worst part is the dreaded family reunion where you meet family members you didn't even know you had...like the one drug addict or the one member of your family that managed to get into Harvard. Urban Dictionary

A word used to force you to do things you don't want to do. Urban Dictionary

Group of people who have all been inside the same vagina. Urban Dictionary

The close relationships among a body of human beings through blood. Usually are annoying and invasive around the holidays. Urban Dictionary

Eaters of my meals and unwanted sharers of my desrt. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to family:
family, gamily, foamily.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word family:
capita, wingspan, endemic, snails, versus, median, income, subtropical, moist, genera, ecuador, genus, spread, cameroon, lowland, madagascar, size, congo, habitat, guinea, described, emigrated, shell, larvae, grandfather, species, colombia, tropical, forests, peru, found, generations, age, allies, under.

Words that rhyme with family:
amalie, multifamily, bramley, subfamily, superfamily, hamley, birmingham lea, camel he, chamlee, gramley, lamle, sam lee.

Adjectives that are often used to describe family:
whole, royal, own, large, extended, same, entire, nuclear, immediate, human, american, noble, single, wealthy, poor, ancient, class, happy, big, average, joint, imperial, traditional, prominent, numerous, patriarchal, distinguished, respectable, rich, aristocratic, christian, typical, powerful, famous, parent, chinese, illustrious, bereaved, italian, foster, close, bourgeois, irish, known, dysfunctional, sub, adoptive, patient, immigrant, knit, biological, conjugal, prosperous, nice, mexican.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective family:
members, history, life, therapy, homes, houses, planning, dwellings, structure, house, size, ties, conflict, violence, income, relations, home, units, background, groups, housing, dwelling, tradition, relationships, support, law, allowances, care, residences, programs, interaction, policy, households, services, relationship, involvement, centered, member, names, education, worship, counseling, records, prayers, patterns, residence, name, issues, status, farms, stress, property, functioning, friends, caregivers, histories, matters, physicians, policies, letters, assessment, environment, structures, influences, conflicts, unit, living, based, pride, composition, responsibilities, tree, roles, traditions, origin, caregiving, stories, portraits, resemblances, friendly, reunification, quarrels, communication, balance.

Consonant match to family:
firmly, famille a, famille au, female a, female he, female lay.

Words that sound like family:
family, familie, finally, families, familier, funnily, fennelly, faunally, fanelli, finale, formally, famously, fannel, fancily, fanale, fummel, gamily, hammily, famille, fenella, finella, final, female, finals, famine, females, funnel, fondly, firmly, faintly, finely, finley, fennel, amalie, fatally, finlay, family guy, phenol, phily, funnels, findlay, femail, my family, finchley, feli, funnell, fennell, findley, funneled, finales, fatly, fiendly, finitely, facially, fenley, falli, phenyl, fussily, fonly, finola, famble, faunal, phalli, famis, funnelled, fagley, family day, phonal, the family, fuzzily, phenols, family law, fenil, finkley, furrily, faddily, tea family, funkily, simile, pamela, famish, homily, semele, camelo, cannily, thermally, venally, tumuli, philly, famished, filly, familia, frilly, phillie, felly, fili, filley, phonically, friley, fishily.