family

Noun
  1. A social unit living together (synset 108094856)
    "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"; "the family refused to accept his will"
    is a type of: social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
    subtypes:
    • broken home - a family in which the parents have separated or divorced
    • conjugal family, nuclear family - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
    • extended family - a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives
    • foster family - the family of a fosterling
    • foster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
    • menage a trois - household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations
    same as: home, house, household, menage
  2. Primary social group;
    Parents and children (synset 107986853)
    "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
    is a type of: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe - group of people related by blood or marriage
    subtypes:
    specific instances:
    • bronte sisters - a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels
    • marx brothers - a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor
    member holonym:
    • child, kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
    • parent - a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
    • sib, sibling - a person's brother or sister
    same as: family unit
  3. A collection of things sharing a common attribute (synset 108014145)
    "there are two classes of detergents"
    is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    subtypes:
    • grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
    • paradigm, substitution class - the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
    • brass family - (music) the family of brass instruments
    • violin family - (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments
    • woodwind family - (music) the family of woodwind instruments
    • stamp - a type or class
    • sex - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
    • declension - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
    • conjugation - a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
    • denomination - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
    • histocompatibility complex - a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response
    member holonym: superphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
    same as: category, class
  4. People descended from a common ancestor (synset 107987168)
    "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
    is a type of: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock - the descendants of one individual
    subtypes:
    • people - members of a family line
    • homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family)
    • house - aristocratic family line
    • dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
    • gens, name - family based on male descent
    same as: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept
  5. A person having kinship with another or others (synset 110256001)
    "he's kin"; "he's family"
    is a type of: relation, relative - a person related by blood or marriage
    subtypes: affine - (anthropology) kin by marriage
    same as: kin, kinsperson
  6. (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera (synset 108124465)
    "sharks belong to the fish family"
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    is a type of: taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations
    subtypes:
    member holonym:
    • bunyaviridae - a large family of arboviruses that affect a wide range of hosts (mainly vertebrates and arthropods)
    • togaviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods
    • flaviviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods
    • arenaviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods
    • rhabdoviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods
    • reoviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods
    • subfamily - (biology) a taxonomic category below a family
    • tribe - (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
    • genus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
    belongs to: order - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
  7. A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities (synset 108263223)
    is a type of: gangdom, gangland, organized crime - underworld organizations
    subtypes: cosa nostra, maffia, mafia - a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
    same as: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate
  8. An association of people who share common beliefs or activities (synset 108244837)
    "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
    is a type of: association - a formal organization of people or groups of people
    subtypes: koinonia - Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community
    same as: fellowship

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