Meaning of family | Babel Free

Definitions

1. family (a nuclear family)
2. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
   countable, uncountable
3. family (a grouping of things possessing common characteristics)
4. Pregnant.
5. An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
   countable, uncountable
6. in a or the family way, pregnant.
7. A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
   countable, uncountable
8. A group of organisms ranking above a genus and below an order. See Table at taxonomy.
9. Members of one's family collectively.
   uncountable
10. Of or relating to the family or household:domestic, familial, home, homely, household.
11. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
    countable, uncountable
12. controlling or limiting the number of children that people have especially by using a means of contraception. a family planning clinic. gesinsbeplanning, geboortebeplanning تَنْظيم العائِلَه семейно планиране planejamento familiar plánované rodičovství die Familienplanung familieplanlægning οικογενειακός προγραμματισμός planificación familiar pereplaneerimine تنظیم خانواده perhesuunnittelu limitation des naissances תִכנוּן מִשפָּחָה परिवार नियोजन primjena kontracepcije radi ograničenja broja ...
    especially
13. The gay community.
    slang, uncountable
14. (a plan showing) a person's ancestors and relations. stamboom, geslagsregister شَجَرَة العائِلَه родословно дърво árvore genealógica rodokmen der Stammbaum stamtræ οικογενειακό δέντρο árbol genealógico sugupuu شجره نامه sukupuu arbre généalogique אִילָן יוֹחָסִין वंश वृक्ष obiteljsko stablo családfa silsilah ættartala albero genealogico 家系図 가계도 genealogijos medis ciltskoks salah-silah keluarga stamboomstamtre drzewo genealogiczne شجره نامه árvore genealógica arbore genealogic генеалогическое ...
15. Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
    uncountable
16. familia;___ man → padre de familia;
17. 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.
    countable, uncountable
18. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
19. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
    countable, uncountable
20. People in the same line of descent; lineage: comes from an old Virginia family.
21. A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
    countable
22. Obsolete All the members of a household living under one roof.
    Obsolete
23. A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
    countable, uncountable
24. A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Our family lives in town.”

“To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own⟳ more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest⟳, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.”

“Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash⟳ off.”

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live⟳ lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear⟳ flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love⟳ for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind⟳ them together.”

“They’re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they’ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut⟳ up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want⟳ to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.”

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

“We must preserve⟳ the family unit if we want⟳ to save⟳ civilisation!”

“I have⟳ a lot of family in Australia.”

“He has a sister, but no other family.”

“crime family, Mafia family”

“This is my fraternity family at the university.”

“Our company is one big happy family.”

“[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like⟳ gaydar, I always say⟳.”

“Indeed, he married her for love⟳. A whisper⟳ still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.”

“Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.”

“Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own⟳ cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.”

“When creating a font family, first decide⟳ whether to use⟳ all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose⟳ two or three fonts of that type⟳ […]”

“Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name⟳ for each individual[…]”

“Magnolias belong⟳ to the family Magnoliaceae.”

“The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share⟳ in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…].”

“Let⟳ #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.”

“the brass family;  the violin family”

“the Indo-European family”

“the Afroasiatic family”

CEFR level