family
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(noun) primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
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Synonyms: family unit |
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Related Words: clan, couple, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, man and wife, marriage, married couple, match, mates, tribe |
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(noun) people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Masachusetts since the Mayflower" |
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Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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Related Words: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, dynasty, gens, homefolk, house, line, line of descent, lineage, name, origin, parentage, pedigree, people, stock |
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(noun) a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" |
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Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
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Related Words: conjugal family, extended family, foster home, nuclear family, social unit, unit |
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(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" |
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Related Words: Endamoebidae, amphibian family, arthropod family, bacteria family, bird family, chordate family, coelenterate family, ctenophore family, dicot family, echinoderm family, family Endamoebidae, fern family, fish family, form family, fungus family, gymnosperm family, liliopsid family, magnoliopsid family, mammal family, mollusk family, monocot family, moss family, plant family, protoctist family, reptile family, taxon, taxonomic group, worm family |
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(noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship" |
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Synonyms: fellowship |
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Related Words: association |
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(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" |
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Synonyms: category, class |
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Related Words: Diplopoda, Larvacea, Malacostraca, Myriapoda, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, class Diplopoda, class Larvacea, class Myriapoda, collection, conjugation, declension, grammatical category, sex, stamp, subclass Malacostraca, syntactic category |
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(noun) a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
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Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
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Related Words: relation, relative |
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