Word Finder - family

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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.

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Suitable for children and adults.

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It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.

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Conservative, traditional.

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The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

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Homosexual.

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I knew he was family when I first met him.

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A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

What a big family it was!

The babies were healthy and by mid-August, they would have two new family members.

Next morning it was I who waked the whole family with my first "Merry Christmas!"

In connection with this lesson she learned the names of the members of the family and the word IS.

Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

No one in her family ever questioned her innocence.

Actually, it was how my family always celebrated Christmas.

Sure. Is it someone your family knew?

The head of the family, Count Ilya Rostov, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure.

The atmosphere of this small family restaurant is casual.

We might pay a premium to support a family farm.

The family separated on the most friendly terms.

I told her that in my opinion the child ought to be separated from the family for a few weeks at least--that she must learn to depend on and obey me before I could make any headway.

It was a cozy family setting, and she soon forgot the argument.

Are you related to the family that...

I very soon made up my mind that I could do nothing with Helen in the midst of the family, who have always allowed her to do exactly as she pleased.

Naturally the family was much disturbed, and left the room.

If his family wanted him to come back, they would have to get rid of his current responsibilities.

And most important of all, was she or Giddon's family in any danger?

The family consisted of my father and mother, two older half-brothers, and, afterward, a little sister, Mildred.

For instance, if you think large corporation are greedy and evil, then when you read about how large corporations produce low-nutrition food or are putting family farms out of business, you will believe it.

I didn't ask about his family tree.

Both he and his family dressed well; they had plenty to eat; he had even bought a horse to help him carry his produce to market.

Melyukova was a widow, who, with her family and their tutors and governesses, lived three miles from the Rostovs.

During the three days preceding the occupation of Moscow the whole Rostov family was absorbed in various activities.

Bill was family because he was married to Alex's sister.

Miss Sullivan and I were at that time in Hulton, Pennsylvania, visiting the family of Mr. William Wade.

So he considered it necessary to ask for leave of absence for family and domestic reasons.

He had all the family he wanted in Arkansas.

Hopefully her family would be in the restaurant now – safe from any flooding on the highway.

After his interview with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrew went to Petersburg, on business as he told his family, but really to meet Anatole Kuragin whom he felt it necessary to encounter.

You have a good family.

For the most part, the work she did for the Giddon family was little more than she would have done at home - with the exception that at home she probably would have made a sandwich instead of a meal.

Next to his family he loved his dogs and gun.

And with a Frenchman's easy and naive frankness the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, youth, and manhood, and all about his relations and his financial and family affairs, "ma pauvre mere" playing of course an important part in the story.

In other words, when he shook himself free of his current family, he would come to Dulce.

Why don't you try calling your family again?

Farther down the hill, on the left, on the old road in the woods, are marks of some homestead of the Stratton family; whose orchard once covered all the slope of Brister's Hill, but was long since killed out by pitch pines, excepting a few stumps, whose old roots furnish still the wild stocks of many a thrifty village tree.

At first the family felt some constraint in intercourse with Prince Andrew; he seemed a man from another world, and for a long time Natasha trained the family to get used to him, proudly assuring them all that he only appeared to be different, but was really just like all of them, and that she was not afraid of him and no one else ought to be.

Alpatych, having sent his family away, was alone at Bald Hills and was sitting indoors reading the Lives of the Saints.

But this he was unable to do, for he received tidings that the French had unexpectedly advanced, and had barely time to remove his own family and valuables from his estate.

Moreover, his whole attention was engrossed by watching the family circle--separated from all else-- formed by the men in the battery.

He needed his family.

In 2009, in the United States of America, the poverty threshold for a single person under sixty-five was about $11,000 a year; the threshold for a family group of four, including two children, was about $22,000 a year.

The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people.

During his stay at Bald Hills all the family dined together, but they were ill at ease and Prince Andrew felt that he was a visitor for whose sake an exception was being made and that his presence made them all feel awkward.

In contrast with the dread felt by the infantrymen placed in support, here in the battery where a small number of men busy at their work were separated from the rest by a trench, everyone experienced a common and as it were family feeling of animation.

The men soon accepted Pierre into their family, adopted him, gave him a nickname ("our gentleman"), and made kindly fun of him among themselves.

No, it's no one my family knew but I think the change will be good for me.

He's graduated to the family and papa takes care of his boys.