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Definition for: family

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English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
seems soul French #400: family earth live hard

Etymology

Latin familia , from famula , servant

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈfæməli/

Noun

Singular
family

Plural
countable and uncountable; families

family ( countable and uncountable; plural families )

  1. ( countable ) a father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family
    "Her nuclear family was very small."
  2. ( countable ) a group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
  3. ( countable ) a kin, tribe; also called extended family
  4. ( countable , taxonomy ) a rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species.
  5. ( countable , taxonomy ) a taxon at this rank
  6. ( countable ) a group of people who live together
    "This is my fraternity family at the university."
  7. ( countable ) a group of people similar to (2)
    "Our company is one big happy family."
  8. ( uncountable ) collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group
    They treated me like family.
  9. ( countable ) music: a group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production "the brass family " "the violin family "
  10. ( countable ) linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language "the Indo-European language family " "the Ural-Altaic language family "

Translations

  • Belarusian: сям'я f
  • Breton: familh f -où (1,2), tiegezh m -ioù (1), kerentiezh f -ioù (2,3), kerentiad m -où (4)
  • Bulgarian: семейство (semejstvo) n (1, 4), род (rod) m , рода (roda) f (2)
  • Chinese: 家庭 (jia1ting2) (1), 家族 (jia1zu2) (2)
  • Czech: rodina f
  • Danish: familie c
  • Dutch: familie f (1,2,3), gezin n (1)
  • Esperanto: familio (1,2,3), parenco (3)
  • Finnish: perhe (1), suku (2, 3, 6), heimo (4), läheiset pl (5)
  • French: famille f (1,2,4), parent m (3)
  • German: Familie f
  • Greek: οικογένεια (oikogéneia) f
  • Hebrew: משפחה (Mish'pacha)
  • Icelandic: fjölskylda
  • Hungarian: család; előkelő család; családi; nyelvcsalád
  • Indonesian: keluarga, famili
  • Interlingua: familia
  • Italian: famiglia
  • Japanese: 家族 (かぞく, kazoku), 親戚 (しんせき, shinseki), 親類 (しんるい, shinrui), 親族 (しんぞく, shinzoku); 科 (4)
  • Korean: 가족 [家族] (gajok)
  • Kurdish: malbat f
  • Latin: familia f
  • Lithuanian: šeima f
  • Malay: keluarga, famili, usrah
  • Old English: faru f (1,2,3), tēam (1,2,3)
  • Polish: rodzina f
  • Portuguese: família f
  • Romanian: familie f
  • Russian: семья f , семейство n , род m
  • Slovak: rodina f
  • Slovene: družina f
  • Spanish: familia f
  • Swedish: familj (1, 4); hushåll (1); släkt, släktskap, ätt, börd (2, 3)
  • Telugu: కుటుంబం (kuTumbam)
  • Turkish: aile, akraba
  • Arabic: aile, akareb
  • Hindi: परिवार (Parivaar)

Adjective

family ( not comparable )

Positive
family

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. related to the family
    The dog was kept as a family pet.
    For Apocynaceae , this type of flower is a family characteristic.

Translations

  • Breton: familh
  • Bulgarian: семеен m .
  • Czech: rodinný
  • Interlingua: familiar
  • Kurdish malbatî
  • Polish: rodzinny m . , rodzinna f . , rodzinne n .
  • Portuguese: familiar m . & f .
  • Russian: семейный m .
  • Slovak: rodinný
  • Slovene: družinski m . , družinska f . , družinsko n .

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