| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| NOUN | 1 | family, household, house, home, menage | A social unit living together |
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| 2 | family, family unit | Primary social group | |
| 3 | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry | People descended from a common ancestor | |
| 4 | family, class, category | A collection of things sharing a common attribute | |
| 5 | family, fellowship | An association of people who share common beliefs or activities | |
| 6 | family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | |
| 7 | family, kin, kinsperson | A person having kinship with another or others | |
| 8 | family, syndicate, crime syndicate, mob | A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
| Sounds | fae'mahliy; fae'mliy |
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| Rhymes | ably, abnormally, abruptly, and 1495 more rhymes in liy at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | A social unit living together. |
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| Examples | "he moved his family to Virginia" |
| Synonyms | household, house, home, menage |
| Narrower | nuclear family, conjugal family; extended family; foster family; foster home; menage a trois |
| Broader | unit, social unit |
| Meaning | Primary social group. Parents and children. |
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| Examples | "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| Synonyms | family unit |
| Members | child, kid; parent; sibling, sib |
| Narrower | couple, mates, match; marriage, married couple, man and wife; Marx Brothers |
| Broader | kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe |
| Adjectives | familial |
| Meaning | People descended from a common ancestor. |
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| Examples | "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| Synonyms | family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry |
| Narrower | people; homefolk; house; dynasty; name, gens |
| Broader | lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| Meaning | A collection of things sharing a common attribute. |
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| Synonyms | class, category |
| Members | superphylum |
| Narrower | Larvacea, class Larvacea; Diplopoda, class Diplopoda, Myriapoda, class Myriapoda; Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca; grammatical category, syntactic category; substitution class, paradigm; stamp; sex; declension; conjugation; denomination |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage |
| Meaning | An association of people who share common beliefs or activities. |
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| Examples | "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family" |
| Synonyms | fellowship |
| Narrower | koinonia |
| Broader | association |
| Meaning | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera. |
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| Examples | "sharks belong to the fish family" |
| Category | biology, biological science |
| Member of | order |
| Members | Bunyaviridae; Togaviridae; Flaviviridae; Arenaviridae; Rhabdoviridae; Reoviridae; subfamily; tribe; genus |
| Narrower | Filoviridae; bacteria family; protoctist family; Endamoebidae, family Endamoebidae; fish family; chordate family; bird family; amphibian family; reptile family; arthropod family; mammal family; coelenterate family; ctenophore family; worm family; mollusk family; Panorpidae, family Panorpidae; Bittacidae, family Bittacidae; echinoderm family; form family; moss family; monocot family, liliopsid family; dicot family, magnoliopsid family; fungus family; plant family; fern family |
| Broader | taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon |
| Meaning | A person having kinship with another or others. |
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| Examples | "he's family" |
| Synonyms | kin, kinsperson |
| Narrower | affine |
| Broader | relative, relation |
| Meaning | A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. |
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| Synonyms | syndicate, crime syndicate, mob |
| Narrower | Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra |
| Broader | organized crime, gangland, gangdom |