Meaning of family in English
This movie is good family entertainment (= something that can be enjoyed by parents and children together) .
family life How do you like family life (= being married, having children, etc.) ?
the children of a family:
Women shouldn't have to choose between career and family (= having children) .
start a family Paul and Ana are hoping to start a family (= have children) soon.
raise a family My dad died when we were small so my mum raised the family on her own.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- child We have three children, two girls and a boy.
- son My son is getting married in the spring.
- daughter Her daughter works for a multinational in the Netherlands.
- kid My two kids are both grown up now.
- offspring I'm sure you'll be relieved once your offspring grow up and leave home.
- brood My sister descended on me with her brood of five.
a group of people who care about each other because they have a close relationship or shared interests:
Since our time at school we have come to regard each other as family.
His new employers welcomed him into their corporate family.
We must work together to combat the issues affecting our African family.
a pair of adult animals and their babies:
family of We've got a family of squirrels living in our garden.
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- Peter's success at collegedelighted his family.
- He read her letteraloud to the rest of the family.
- She values her job above her family.
- There were scenes of greatjoy as the hostages were re-united with their families.
- Several families take in foreignstudents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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family noun ( BIOLOGICAL GROUP )
[ C ] biology specialized
a large group of related types of animal or plant:
The lion is a member of the cat family.
Plant crops from the same family close together.
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- Pecans come from the same family as the hickory.
- Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and brussel sprouts are all in the brassica family.
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family noun ( SIMILAR THINGS )
a group of things that are related or have similar qualities:
family of Phthalates are a family of chemicals used in making plastics.
same family Dishes and spoons are not usually classified as art works, and yet seem to belong to the same family.
product family The business plan is grouped by product family.
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- Hydrotherapy refers to a family of therapies that treatconditions using water.
- The researchdescribes a new family of algorithms for manipulatingcompressedimages.
- This is one of a family of proteins that can killbacteria by rupturingtheircellmembranes.
- The conditionappears to be in the same family of diseases as paralyticpolio and MS.
- This is the most successful new product family in the company's history.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
- adjacent
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- ballpark
- be no better than (a) something idiom
- congruent
- ditto
- equivalence
- equivalency
- equivalent
- equivalent of something
- equivalent to something
- non-distinctive
- not make any difference idiom
- of the kind idiom
- one and the same idiom
- respecter
- synonymous
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Idiom
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/ ˈfæm·ə·li , ˈfæm·li /
family noun ( PARENTS AND CHILDREN )
[ C ] Her family moved here when she was eleven.
[ U ] Many people cope with the demands of both career and family.
[ C ] She wants to get married and have a family (= have children) .
family noun ( BIOLOGICAL TYPE )
a large group of related types of animals or plants:
The lion is a member of the cat family.
(Definition of family from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of family
This may include planning a further move to housing offering a greater degree of shelter, or even greater reliance on families.
Under these plans, convicts were granted access to land and encouraged to bring their families from the mainland.
In rice fields, these three families or subfamilies made up 63% of species and 86% of all individuals present.
Only in a small proportion of cases were referrals made purely on grounds of existing illness in patient or family.
Psychological therapies, family treatments and vocational rehabilitation are described.
In the compensation plans for injured workers and the victim's family, workers with longer tenure were rewarded.
We collected 2681 fishes, representing 46 species and 10 families.
The morbid risk represents the percentage of family members who develop the specific disorder.
Twenty-six of the 30 who reported sterilization said they had a family physician.
After death, family members reported the actual family involvement in health care decisions near death.
Some surrogates need to review what the patient and/or family has experienced in the past with end of life issues.
Their families, recruited from local birth records, had agreed to participate with their children in a longitudinal study of language development.
The families were recruited from local birth records.
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Collocations with family
family
These are words often used in combination with family .
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Genetic liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorder and an adoptive family rearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.
He was a scion of an old aristocratic family, a fact of which he was notoriously proud.
Researchers received special training for sensitive data collection among bereaved family members and conducted interviews in the respondent's own home.
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Translations of family
in Chinese (Traditional)
社會群體, 家，家庭, 子女…
in Chinese (Simplified)
社会群体, 家，家庭, 子女…
in Spanish
familia, prole, familia [feminine]…
in Portuguese
família, família [feminine]…
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in Italian
कुटुंब - आई, वडील, त्यांची मुलं अशा एकमेकांच्या नात्यातल्या व्यक्तींचा गट…
家族, 一家, 家族（かぞく）…
aile, soy, ailede çocuklar…
famille [feminine], (de) famille, famille…
família, prole…
gezin, familie, geslacht…
ஒரு தாய், ஒரு தந்தை மற்றும் அவர்களின் குழந்தைகள் போன்ற ஒருவருக்கொருவர் தொடர்புடைய ஒரு குழு…
परिवार, कुटुम्ब…
કુટુંબ, પરિવાર…
familie, familie-, -familie…
familj, familje-, släkt…
die Familie, Familien……
familie [masculine], (kjerne)familie, familie…
خاندان, کنبہ…
родина, сім'я, рід…
семья, дети, семейство (растений…
পরিবার, পরিজনবর্গ…
rodina, rodinný, čeleď…
ครอบครัว, ญาติ ๆ, บุตรภรรยา…
gia đình, gia tộc, con cái…
rodzina, dzieci, ród…
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More meanings of family
- extended family
- family name
- family planning
- family room
- family tree
- nuclear family
- anti-family
Idioms and phrases
- start a family phrase
- run in the family idiom
- be in the family way idiom
- something runs in someone’s family idiom
- problem child, family, etc. phrase
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