menage

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: family, home, house, household

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