Family
41family — 1. noun /ˈfæməli/ a) A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family. Our family lives in town. b) A group of people related by blood …
42family — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. household; forefathers, children, descendants, lineage, family tree; clan, tribe, kindred; group, association, classification, class. See ancestry. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. kindred, familial,… …
43FAMILY — The family over time (the descent group or gentilicium) formed the essential building block of Etruscan social class. Study of human bones (e.g., from the Ferrone cemetery) suggests a high degree of marrying within a tight genetic group. More… …
44family — 1. not pornographic Not as modern as we might think; Bowdler called his emasculation of the Bard The Family Shakespeare. Thus a family show is one in which the vulgarity is muted. 2. the Mafia A society which had as its watchwords… …
45Family — (1) A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. (2) A biological classification of related plants or animals that is a division below the order and above the genus. (3) A group of genes related in structure… …
46family — Synonyms and related words: affiliation, agnate, ancestors, ancestry, animal kingdom, antonomasia, apparentation, ashram, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bloodline, body …
47family — noun 1) I met his family Syn: relatives, relations, (next of) kin, clan, tribe; informal folks 2) she is married with a family Syn: children, little ones, youngsters; informal kids 3) …
48family — See: RUN IN THE BLOOD or RUN IN THE FAMILY, IN A FAMILY WAY …
49family — See: RUN IN THE BLOOD or RUN IN THE FAMILY, IN A FAMILY WAY …
50family — natural family at u*ral fam i*ly, n. (Biol.) a group of living organisms classed as a {family} in a toxonomic classification. [PJC] …
