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Noun: family famulee- A social unit living together
"he moved his family to Virginia" - household, house, home, ménage - Primary social group; parents and children
"he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" - family unit - A collection of things sharing a common attribute
- class, category - People descended from a common ancestor
"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" - family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry - A person having kinship with another or others
"he's family" - kin, kinsperson - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
"sharks belong to the fish family" - A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- syndicate, crime syndicate, mob - An association of people who share common beliefs or activities
"the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family" - fellowship
Derived forms: families See also: familial Type of: accumulation, aggregation, ancestry, assemblage, association, blood, blood line, bloodline, clan, collection, descent, flesh and blood, gangdom, gangland, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, line, line of descent, lineage, organised crime [Brit], organized crime, origin, parentage, pedigree, relation, relative, social unit, stemma, stock, taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group, tribe, unit Part of: order Encyclopedia: Family Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America |