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Etymology

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The Russian Imperial family in 1913

From LateMiddle Englishfamylye, fromLatinfamilia(“a household”). Displaced nativeOld Englishhīred.Doublet offamilia.

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Noun

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family (countable anduncountable,pluralfamilies)

  2. A group of people who are closely related to one another (byblood,marriage oradoption);kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; animmediate family.
    Ourfamily lives in town.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, inPride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] forT[homas] Egerton, […],→OCLC,page200:
      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 wholefamily 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.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC:
      Such ascandal as the prosecution of abrother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of afamily perhaps at a criticalmoment, when thefamily is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
    • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume407, number8838, page11:
      America’s poverty line is $63 a day for afamily 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.
    • 2018 May 6, “Rudy Giuliani”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode10,John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
      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 hisfamily, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.
  3. Anextended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
    • 1915, William T. Groves,A History and Genealogy of the GrovesFamily in America:
  4. Anuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
    The cultural struggle is for the survival offamily values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
    We must preserve thefamily unit if we want to save civilisation!
  5. (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
    I have a lot offamily in Australia.
    He has a sister, but no otherfamily.
  6. A (close-knit)group ofpeople related byblood, friendship,marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
    crimefamily,Mafiafamily
    This is my fraternityfamily at the university.
    Our company is one big happyfamily.
    1. (uncountable, gayslang) Thegaycommunity.
      • 1982 July 15, Gloria Godqueen, “What's in a card”, inBay Area Reporter, volume12, number28,page 7:
        […]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.
  7. (uncountable)Lineage, especially honorable ornoble lineage.
    • 1852 March –1853 September,Charles Dickens, chapter 2, inBleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1853,→OCLC:
      Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so muchfamily that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
  8. Anygroup or aggregation ofthings classed together askindred or related from possessing incommoncharacteristics which distinguish them from other things of the sameorder.
    Doliracetam is a drug from the racetamfamily.
    • 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers,Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete, page262:
      When creating a fontfamily, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type[…]
    2. (biology, taxonomy) Acategory in theclassification oforganisms, ranking beloworder and abovegenus; ataxon at that rank.
      Synonym:familia
      Magnolias belong to thefamily Magnoliaceae.
      • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page 4:
        The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The twofamilies share in common:a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […].
    3. (set theory, countable) A collection ofsets, especially ofsubsets of a given set.
      LetF{\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}} be afamily of subsets overS{\displaystyle S}.
    4. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
      the brassfamily;  the violinfamily
    5. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to havedescended from the sameancestral language.
      Synonym:language family
      the Indo-Europeanfamily
      the Afroasiaticfamily
    • 1945,E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, inThe Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire:Clarendon Press,→OCLC, page xi:
      Of the great Indo-Europeanfamily of languages the general principal was also that of one name for each individual[…]

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  • In some dialects, for a family of humans (relatives, parents, children, etc),notional agreement is the norm andformal agreement is uncommon. Thusthe familyare coming for a holiday dinner rather thanthe familyis coming for a holiday dinner.

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Translations

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immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children
group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
music: a group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production
linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
(used attributively)
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Adjective

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family (notcomparable)

  1. Suitable for children and adults.
    It's not good for a date, it's afamily restaurant.
    Some animated movies are not just for kids, they arefamily movies.
    This is afamily restaurant, stop making out!
  2. (gayslang)Homosexual.
    I knew he wasfamily when I first met him.

Translations

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suitable for children and adults
(slang) homosexual

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