A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Our family lives in town.
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
Suitable for children and adults.
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
Homosexual.
I knew he was family when I first met him.
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.
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