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Definition of Family

Family The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family. A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order. Related Definitions: An, And, Animal, As, Based, Be, Because, Body, Botany, By, Case, Certain, Children, Chlorine, Clan, Closely, Collective, Common, Comprehensive, Comprising, Considered, Constituting, Course, Dependent, Descend, Descent, Development, Either, Family, Father, From, Fundamental, Genealogy, Genus, Group, Head, Honorable, House, Household, Human, Husband, In, Including, Is, It, Kindred, Less, Likeness, Line, Lineage, Live, Zoology, Man, Manager, May, More, Noble, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Order, Organization, Progenitor, Pronounced, Race, Related, Resemblance, Respectable, Same, Society, Stock, Structure, Than, The, Their, Thing, Those, Tribe, Under, Unit, Vegetable, Who, Wife

Family Quotations I love my family. Manute Bol It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others. Marta Kristen But this is called show business, not show family. Alice Barrett Life is about family and technology. Mark Goddard My family really does come first. It always did and always will. Meryl Streep

Family Translations family in Afrikaans is familie, gesin family in Danish is familie family in Dutch is gezin, huisgezin, huis, familie family in Finnish is perhe family in French is famille family in German is Rechnerfamilie, Familie family in Italian is famiglia family in Latin is familia family in Norwegian is familie family in Spanish is familia

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