family
noun
[ ˈfamɪli ]
• a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit.
• "the family lived in a large house with a lot of land"
• all the descendants of a common ancestor.
• "the house has been owned by the same family for 300 years"
Similar:
ancestry,
parentage,
birth,
pedigree,
genealogy,
background,
family tree,
descent,
lineage,
line,
line of descent,
bloodline,
blood,
extraction,
derivation,
race,
strain,
stock,
breed,
dynasty,
house,
forebears,
forefathers,
antecedents,
progenitors,
roots,
origins,
filiation,
stirps,
• a group of related things.
• "all manuscripts that share this reading constitute a family"
family
adjective
• designed to be suitable for children as well as adults.
• "a family newspaper"
Origin:
late Middle English (in family (sense 2 of the noun); also denoting the servants of a household or the retinue of a nobleman): from Latin familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.
