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1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. 2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. 3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. 4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage. 5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family. 6. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family. 7. A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. 8. primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" 
Related wordsamphibian family arenaviridae arthropod family association bacteria family biology bird family bittacidae broken home bronte sisters bunyaviridae child chordate family coelenterate family colleague couple ctenophore family dicot family dynasty echinoderm family endamoebidae extended family familial fern family filoviridae fish family flaviviridae form family foster family foster home fungus family genus home homefolk homeowner house kin koinonia lineage mammal family marriage marx brothers menage a trois mollusk family monocot family moss family name nuclear family order panorpidae parent people plant family protoctist family reoviridae reptile family rhabdoviridae sibling subfamily taxonomic group togaviridae tribe unit worm family |
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