| family | |
| 1. s. 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. | |
| Our family lives in town. | |
| 2. s. An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. | |
| 3. s. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. | |
| crime family, Mafia family | |
| This is my fraternity family at the university. | |
| Our company is one big happy family. | |
| 4. s. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. | |
| Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae. | |
| 5. s. 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. | |
| Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family. | |
| 6. s. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. | |
| the brass family; the violin family | |
| 7. s. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. | |
| the Indo-European language family; the Afro-Asiatic language family | |
| 8. s. Used attributively. | |
| The dog was kept as a family pet. | |
| For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic. | |
| 9. adj. Suitable for children and adults. | |
| It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant. | |
| Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies. | |
| 10. adj. Conservative, traditional. | |
| The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality. | |
| 11. adj. (slang) Homosexual. | |
| I knew he was family when I first met him. | |
