Definition:
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
- (v. t.) 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.
- (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
- (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
- (v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
- (v. t.) 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.
Compare family with other words:
family vs. house
family vs. parent
family vs. love
breed vs. family
family vs. view
family vs. kinship
family vs. foe
environment vs. family
condemned vs. family
family vs. santalaceous
family vs. geraniaceous
family vs. lopseed
family vs. ostracean
family vs. tiliaceous
family vs. notidanian
family vs. virgularian
family vs. lobeliaceous
family vs. numbfish
family vs. genealogize
familistery vs. family
family vs. vespertilionine
family vs. interosculant
bonapartist vs. family
family vs. ulmaceous
family vs. oleaceous
family vs. polemoniaceous
family vs. kelpfish
family vs. larine
family vs. tortricid
bombycid vs. family
family vs. tanistry
family vs. ianthina
family vs. motmot
bigeye vs. family
family vs. longfin
apocynaceous vs. family
areca vs. family
family vs. opah
family vs. mantispid
family vs. ragworm
bagworm vs. family
family vs. trembler
family vs. mahoe
family vs. wattlebird
family vs. xyridaceous
enate vs. family
boxfish vs. family
family vs. linsang
family vs. royalism
family vs. specie
families vs. family
family vs. reprehensible
family vs. suggest
family vs. kindred
apply vs. family
family vs. gang
family vs. sector
anchor vs. family
family vs. word
family vs. foumart
bovid vs. family
family vs. geometrid
family vs. parricidal
family vs. horse
family vs. solitaire
family vs. tinamou
family vs. lumpsucker
family vs. screamer
baltic vs. family
family vs. snook
family vs. tenrec
family vs. loris
family vs. totem
family vs. jacamar
family vs. folks
family vs. leguminous
family vs. scad
family vs. liliaceous
family vs. paterfamilias
crucifer vs. family
cruciferous vs. family
daw vs. family
domesticity vs. family
cockle vs. family
family vs. pika
family vs. horsefly
family vs. goldeneye
family vs. lamprey
family vs. roller
family vs. triton
family vs. terrapin
family vs. homesick
family vs. guinea
family vs. kinfolk
disconnect vs. family
family vs. swallowtail
family vs. labiate
family vs. genealogy
family vs. myna
bovine vs. family
family vs. juniper
family vs. superfamily
family vs. piety
family vs. subfamily
family vs. trombone
family vs. pufferfish
blowfish vs. family
family vs. satyr
agaric vs. family
agnate vs. family
family vs. gadfly
family vs. lobelia
family vs. honeysuckle
family vs. hollyhock
family vs. geranium
digitalis vs. family
daisy vs. family
crocus vs. family
family vs. villa
dynasty vs. family
family vs. flathead
family vs. marjoram
bifurcation vs. family
auk vs. family
category vs. family
family vs. relation
family vs. hearth
family vs. firefly
badian vs. family
family vs. jerboa
ageratum vs. family
family vs. scarab
belonging vs. family
ally vs. family
carriage vs. family
cockatoo vs. family
brood vs. family
family vs. surname
family vs. line
family vs. waterfowl
family vs. generation
family vs. home
family vs. swallow
cover vs. family
family vs. trite
familiar vs. family
familiarity vs. family
family vs. organism
family vs. genus
family vs. order
family vs. rank
classification vs. family
family vs. kin
family vs. marriage
family vs. people
daughter vs. family
family vs. group
family vs. father
family vs. mother
family vs. son
family vs. tribe
family vs. friend
family vs. tortoise
family vs. fuchsia
family vs. species
citrus vs. family
baby vs. family
blood vs. family
family vs. husband
family vs. general
family vs. internal
family vs. household
family vs. pencil
family vs. stock
cod vs. family
demonstrate vs. family
family vs. grass
die vs. family
alien vs. family
family vs. ship
acaleph vs. family
family vs. segment
cat vs. family
designated vs. family
family vs. region
family vs. untrue