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Family

noun

(pl. families)

A social unit living together. Synonyms: home, house, household, menage. "It was a good Christian household" , "I waited until the whole house was asleep" , "The teacher asked how many people made up his home"

Primary social group; parents and children. Synonym: family unit.

A collection of things sharing a common attribute. Synonyms: category, class.

People descended from a common ancestor. Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept.

A person having kinship with another or others. Synonyms: kin, kinsperson. "He's family"

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate.

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities. Synonym: fellowship. "The church welcomed new members into its fellowship"

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"Family" Quotes from Famous Books

... years had supported them were destroyed, stone statues and flying buttresses weighing many tons were smashed into atoms, but not a single crucifix was touched, not one waxen or wooden image of the Virgin disturbed, not one painting of the Holy Family marred. ...

— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... of reindeer were seen, but we did not succeed in getting within range of them. A little fish of the Cottus family was caught by Nordquist in a ditch which was in connection with the sea. Driftwood still fresh was found in great abundance, and farther up on land here and there lay ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... auctions. She's filled my house with the wildest mess of bric-a-brac and such stuff you ever came across outside of a museum of natural curiosities. She's spent more money for wrecks that wouldn't be allowed in the cellar of a poor-house than'd keep a family in ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... entering his home, his work ended; he has heroically overcome his long journeyings. After carrying letters all day to those who were waiting for them, he is carrying himself to his own people, who also await him—it is the family which knows the value of the father. He pushes the gate open, he enters the garden path, his ...

— Light • Henri Barbusse

... most atrocious habits; these supplicating arms are lethal weapons; these fingers tell no rosaries, but help to exterminate the unfortunate passer-by. It is an exception that we should never look for in the vegetarian family of the Orthoptera, but the Mantis lives exclusively upon living prey. It is the tiger of the peaceful insect peoples; the ogre in ambush which demands a tribute of living flesh. If it only had sufficient strength its blood-thirsty appetites, and its horrible ...

— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre

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