family

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    n.

  • a social unit living together; household, house, home, menage

    he moved his family to Virginia

    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; family unit

    he wanted to have a good job before starting a family

  • people descended from a common ancestor; family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

    his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

  • a collection of things sharing a common attribute; class, category

    there are two classes of detergents

  • an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; fellowship

    the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family

    the church welcomed new members into its fellowship

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

    sharks belong to the fish family

  • a person having kinship with another or others; kin, kinsperson

    he's kin

    he's family

  • a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities; syndicate, crime syndicate, mob

Microsoft Computer Dictionary

n. A series of hardware or software products that have some properties in common, such as a series of personal computers from the same company, a series of CPU chips from the same manufacturer that all use the same instruction set, a set of 32-bit operating systems based on the same API (for example, Windows 95 and Windows 98), or a set of fonts that are intended to be used together, such as Times New Roman. See also central processing unit, font, instruction set, operating system.

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

families
syn.: group household kin