family

Forms

1.A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- Our family lives in town.
2.An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- My family is very proud of me.
- Please say hello to your family.
- Do you have a large family?
3.A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
4.Members of one's family collectively.
- I have a lot of family in Australia.
- He has a sister, but no other family.

1.Suitable for children and adults.
- This is a family restaurant, stop making out!
- It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
- Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
2.Homosexual.(slang)
- I knew he was family when I first met him.

Very common· #171

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”).

Displaced native Old English hīred.

Doublet of familia.