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family
[ fam-uh-lee, fam-lee ]
noun
- a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not:
the traditional family.
- a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for:
a single-parent family.
- the children of one person or one couple collectively:
We want a large family.
- the spouse and children of one person:
I'm taking the family on vacation next week.
- any group of people closely related by blood or marriage, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins:
to marry into a socially prominent family.
- all those people considered as descendants of a common progenitor:
the Tudor family of England.
- Chiefly British. approved lineage, especially noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry:
young men of family.
- a group of people who form a household under one head, including parents, children, servants, etc.
- the staff, or body of assistants, of an official:
the presidential family.
- a group of people or things that are related by common characteristics, features, or properties:
the family of romantic poets; the halogen family of elements.
- a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together: I鈥檓 not in contact with my relatives, so my friends are my family.
Many hippie communes of the sixties regarded themselves as families.
I鈥檓 not in contact with my relatives, so my friends are my family.
- a group of people who are considered to be united in a common occupation or enterprise:
Our volunteers are an important part of our hospital family.
- an animal or animals with their young:
There goes a duck family crossing the road.
- a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer:
Chevrolet's family of cars.
- Biology. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.
- Slang. a unit of an organized crime syndicate, especially the Mafia or Cosa Nostra, operating in one area under a local leader.
- Linguistics. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Compare stock ( def 12 ), subfamily ( def 2 ).
Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages.
- Mathematics.
- a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation.
- a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter.
- a set.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of a family:
a family trait.
- belonging to or used by a family:
a family automobile; a family room.
- suitable or appropriate for adults and children:
a family amusement park.
- not containing obscene language:
The students made a game of looking up swearwords during library time, so the librarian is investing in a new set of family dictionaries.
family
/ 藞f忙m瑟l瑟; 藞f忙ml瑟 /
noun
- a primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its members
- ( as modifier )
family quarrels
a family unit
- one's wife or husband and one's children
- one's children, as distinguished from one's husband or wife
- a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor Compare extended family
- all the persons living together in one household
- any group of related things or beings, esp when scientifically categorized
- biology any of the taxonomic groups into which an order is divided and which contains one or more genera. Felidae (cat family) and Canidae (dog family) are two families of the order Carnivora
- ecology a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community
- a group of historically related languages assumed to derive from one original language
- an independent local group of the Mafia
- maths a group of curves or surfaces whose equations differ from a given equation only in the values assigned to one or more constants in each curve
a family of concentric circles
- physics the isotopes, collectively, that comprise a radioactive series
- in the family way informal.pregnant
family
- A group of organisms ranking above a genus and below an order. The names of families end in 鈥揳别, a plural ending in Latin. In the animal kingdom, family names end in 鈥搃诲补别, as in Canidae (dogs and their kin), while those in the plant kingdom usually end in 鈥揳肠别补别, as in Rosaceae (roses and their kin).
- See Table at taxonomy
family
- In biology , the classification lower than an order and higher than a genus . Lions, tigers, cheetahs, and house cats belong to the same biological family. Human beings belong to the biological family of hominids . ( See Linnean classification .)
Grammar Note
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补苍路迟颈路蹿补尘路颈路濒测 adjective
- 颈苍路迟别谤路蹿补尘路颈路濒测 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of family1
Idioms and Phrases
- in a / the family way, pregnant 1( def 1 ).
More idioms and phrases containing family
see in a family way ; run in the blood (family) .Example Sentences
Ms Amess told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme that the band's alleged comments were deeply upsetting and hurtful to her and her family.
"When you meet another Filipino, even if you don't know them, you greet them, you feel like they're family, even if you're not."
The government says families will save money, but school wear manufacturers warn the plans could end up costing them more.
The pride and the support and the love of a Mexican American family fortified me.
Ms Ghazaryan was previously working in product and web design when, helped by the fact she comes from a family of doctors, she identified a gap in the market.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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