Definition of Family

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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.

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Family Quotations

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields

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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