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单词 family
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family

You are potentially leaving behind your family who love you.In my family we used to simply recycle unwanted gifts.My elder daughter moved into the family house.Other advice includes not going into business with family and not letting an argument rage on.Money is mainly the means to provide security for my wife and family.Would they give one up to house a refugee family?Successive monarchs and other members of the royal family have played crucial political roles in our past.Your place in a friendship or family group is getting stronger - giving more and taking more.Oh and bring your wife and family too.His family became used to joining him in remote locations.She was devoted to her pupils who became her much extended family.They simply do much better in family groups.This bond can lead to a big family and business.They want to stop young people and families coming.The life of this house and family has gone.It has been cared for by the same family for a century.When you are born into the royal family you have incredible privilege and wealth.You will see that it is not wasted time but rather that it keeps the family together.They remain hopeful that one day they will be a family of five again.There is less emphasis upon maintaining a particular family style and more openness to diversity.There are vague promises that money raised from the sale of the family home will be protected.This is an overwhelming tragedy for her and her husband and their family.Nowadays most people would not stand up for their own families if it meant losing money.It also gives support to parents and extended family.There is space for a large family or group of friends to spread out.His family would be moved to a safe house and given new identities after the cases were over.And it is a young family.He came to me when he was four because his family couldn't look after him.The wife 's family suggested that such a term amounted to weak justice.Some family cars use 40 per cent more fuel than quoted.That might be a different brand or the shop's own brand for example but no one in the family can taste any difference.

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In other languages
family

British English: family /ˈfæmɪlɪ; ˈfæmlɪ/ NOUN
A family is a group of people who are related to each other, especially parents and their children.
...a family of five.
  • American English: family
  • Arabic: عائِلَة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: família
  • Chinese: 家庭
  • Croatian: obitelj
  • Czech: rodina
  • Danish: familie
  • Dutch: gezin
  • European Spanish: familia
  • Finnish: perhe
  • French: famille
  • German: Familie
  • Greek: οικογένεια
  • Italian: famiglia
  • Japanese: 家族
  • Korean: 가족
  • Norwegian: familie
  • Polish: rodzina
  • European Portuguese: família
  • Romanian: familie
  • Russian: семья
  • Latin American Spanish: familia
  • Swedish: familj
  • Thai: ครอบครัว
  • Turkish: aile
  • Ukrainian: сім'я
  • Vietnamese: gia đình

All related terms of 'family'

Chinese translation of 'family'

family

(ˈfæmɪlɪ)

n (c)

  1. (= relations) 家庭 (jiātíng) (个(個), )
    ⇒ the Adams Family 亚当斯一家 (Yàdāngsī yī jiā)
  2. (= children) 孩子 (háizi) (个(個), )
    ⇒ couples with large families 有很多孩子的夫妇们 (yǒu hěn duō háizi de fūfùmen)
  3. (= ancestors) 祖先 (zǔxiān)
    ⇒ Her family came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century. 她的祖先在世纪初来到洛杉矶。 (Tā de zǔxiān zài shìjìchū láidào Luòshānjī.)

cpd

  1. [members, home, life, business] 家庭 (jiātíng)

All related terms of 'family'

(noun) 
Definition
one's wife or husband and one's children
His family are completely behind him, whatever he decides.
Synonyms
relations
people
children
issue
He died without issue in 1946.
relatives
household
growing up in a male-only household
folk (informal)
I've been avoiding my folks lately.
offspring
descendants
brood
Her parents took their rambunctious brood to the country most weekends.
kin
I'm going to live with my husband's kin.
nuclear family
progeny
They set aside funds to ensure the welfare of their progeny.
kindred
She has reconnected with her kindred.
next of kin
kinsmen
ménage
kith and kin
your nearest and dearest
kinsfolk
your own flesh and blood
The kid was his own flesh and blood.
ainga (New Zealand)
cuzzies or cuzzie-bros (New Zealand)
rellies (Australian, slang)
(noun) 
Definition
one's children
Are you going to have a family?
Synonyms
children
kids (informal)
offspring
Characteristics are often passed from parents to offspring.
little ones
munchkins (informal, mainly US)
littlies (Australian, informal)
(noun) 
Definition
a group descended from a common ancestor
Her family came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century.
Synonyms
ancestors
forebears
parentage
She is a Londoner of mixed English and Jamaican parentage.
forefathers
house
the Saudi Royal House
line
We were part of a long line of artists.
race
We welcome students of all races, faiths and nationalities.
blood
He was of noble blood, and an officer.
birth
people of humble birth
strain
a particularly beautiful strain of Swiss pansies
tribe
three hundred members of the Xhosa tribe
sept
clan
A clash had taken place between rival clans.
descent
All the contributors were of foreign descent.
dynasty
pedigree
a countess of impeccable pedigree
extraction
a young Brazilian of German extraction
ancestry
They can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.
lineage
They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.
genealogy
He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her.
line of descent
stemma
stirps
(noun) 
Definition
any group of related objects or beings
foods in the cabbage family, such as Brussels sprouts
Synonyms
species
There are several thousand species of trees here.
group
The recipes are divided into groups according to their main ingredients.
class
a new class of personal computer
system
order
the order of insects Coleoptera, better known as beetles
kind
Lewis and his kind are the best sort of people.
network
genre
his love of films and novels in the horror genre
classification
several different classifications of vehicles
subdivision
subclass

related words

related adjective familial

Usage note

Some careful writers insist that a singular verb should always be used with collective nouns such as government, team, family, committee, and class, for example: the class is doing a project on Vikings; the company is mounting a big sales campaign. In British usage, however, a plural verb is often used with a collective noun, especially where the emphasis is on a collection of individual objects or people rather than a group regarded as a unit: the family are all on holiday. The most important thing to remember is never to treat the same collective noun as both singular and plural in the same sentence: the family is well and sends its best wishes or the family are well and send their best wishes, but not the family is well and send their best wishes.

Quotations

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape [Dodie Smith – Dear Octopus]
All happy families are alike, but every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way [Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina]

proverb

Blood is thicker than water

Additional synonyms

in the sense of ancestry
Definition
family descent
They can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.
Synonyms
origin,
house,
family,
line,
race,
stock,
blood,
ancestors,
descent,
pedigree,
extraction,
lineage,
forebears,
antecedents,
parentage,
forefathers,
genealogy,
derivation,
progenitors
in the sense of birth
Definition
ancestry
people of humble birth
Synonyms
ancestry,
line,
race,
stock,
blood,
background,
breeding,
strain,
descent,
pedigree,
extraction,
lineage,
forebears,
parentage,
genealogy,
derivation
in the sense of blood
Definition
relationship through being of the same family, race, or kind
He was of noble blood, and an officer.
Synonyms
family,
relations,
birth,
descent,
extraction,
ancestry,
lineage,
kinship,
kindred

Synonyms of 'family'

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