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A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
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Our family lives in town.
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An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
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1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America
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A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
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Our company is one big happy family.
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Lineage, especially an honorable one
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A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
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Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
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Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
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Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
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A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
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the brass family; the violin family
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A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
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the Indo-European language family; the Afroasiatic language family
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Used attributively.
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For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.