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family
  1. (countable) 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.
  2. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  3. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  4. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  5. (countable) 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.
  6. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
  7. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
  8. Used attributively.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. household, home, ménage, brood, family unit, menage, nuclear family, clan, family circle, tribe, house, extended family, folks, domestic establishment, ainga, relations, kinship group, binuclear family, relatives, blood relations, family members, kin, next of kin, kinsfolk, kinsmen, kinswomen, kindred, one's flesh and blood, one's own flesh and blood, connexions, connections, fam, nearest and dearest, people, blood relatives, kinfolk, lineage, blood, line, stock, folk, race, kith and kin, kinfolks … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “I grew up in a big and happy family.”
      “Christmas is when I usually get to meet the rest of my family.”
      “Her parents were adamant that her future husband came from the right family.”
fam
  1. (informal) Family.
  2. (colloquial, hospitality industry) Familiarization.
  3. (slang, African American Vernacular, MLE, Canada) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. kin, relations, relatives, family, people, fambo, peoples, nearest and dearest, loved ones, fam-bam, blood relations, kinsfolk, family members, kindred, next of kin, kinsmen, kinswomen, one's flesh and blood, clan, one's own flesh and blood, tribe, folks, kinfolk, blood relatives, lineage, line, kinfolks, house, relation, stock, race, relationship, kinswoman, kinship, kinsman, blood relationship, blood, member of the family, household, connections, extended family, connexions, folk, kith and kin, flesh and blood, connection, consanguinity, kinsperson, flesh, ainga … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Gather 'round, fam, it's time to celebrate our family reunion!”
      “Hey, fam! Want to grab some pizza and catch up?”
familistery
  1. A community in which many people unite, like a single family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
familyism
  1. The study or promotion of familial relations.
fampool
  1. (neologism) A carpool composed of members of the same family.
familylessness
  1. The state or condition of being familyless.
familiality
  1. The quality of being familial.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. familyhood, kinship, tribalism, family
  3. Examples:
      4. “Familiality estimates of pursuit deficits indicate that early pursuit gain was more familial than predictive gain, which has been the most widely used measure in previous family studies of psychotic disorders.”
familyist
  1. A proponent of familyism
fambly
  1. (dialect) Family.
  2. Examples:
      3. “An excrescent b, as in chimbley and fambly, seems to be native.”
      “It was all he could do to git his fambly enough to eat and to kiver 'em.”
      “I 'members a white fambly named Sims what lived in flatwoods.”
familisteries
  1. plural of familistery
familyists
  1. plural of familyist
fampools
  1. plural of fampool
families
  1. plural of family
  2. Synonyms:
      3. households, homes, broods, menages, nuclear families, relatives, relations, blood relations, family members, kins, next of kin, kinsfolks, kinsmen, kinswomen, kindreds, connexions, connections, extended families, clans, tribes, fams, folks, nearest and dearest, peoples, blood relatives, kinfolks, ancestries, parentages, births, pedigrees, genealogies, backgrounds, family trees, descents, lineages, lines, bloodlines, bloods, extractions, derivations, races, strains, stocks, breeds, dynasties, housen, forebears, forefathers, antecedents, heritages … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.”
      “My deepest sympathies go out to the families of the victims.”
      “Letters of sympathy were sent to the families of the victims.”
famblies
  1. plural of fambly
fams
  1. plural of fam
  2. Synonyms:
      3. kins, family, people, nearest and dearest, fam-bams, kindreds, tribes, next of kin, kinsfolk, clans, folks, kinfolk, extended families, race, kinship, households, blood, relationships, lineages, houses, kinsmen, kinswomen, lines, relations, stock, bros, brahs, brosephs, brothers, bruhs, buddies, chaps, dudes, fellas, friends, men, butties, mates, chums, muckers … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After the fams picked me up from the airport they were hungry and they decided Japanese.”
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