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family

noun

1 growing up in the bosom of one's family:

household, ménage;

nuclear family;

informal brood.

2 I wanted to meet his family:

relatives, relations, blood relations, family members, kin, next of kin, kinsfolk, kinsmen, kinswomen, kindred, one's (own) flesh and blood, connections;

extended family;

clan, tribe;

informal fam, folks, nearest and dearest;

dated people.

3 a prospective husband must come from the right kind of family:

ancestry, parentage, birth, pedigree, genealogy, background, family tree, descent, lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood, extraction, derivation, race, strain, stock, breed;

dynasty, house;

forebears, forefathers, antecedents, progenitors, roots, origins;

rare filiation, stirps.

4 she is married with a family:

children, little ones, youngsters;

offspring, progeny, descendants, scions, heirs;

brood;

informal kids, kiddies, kiddiewinks, tots, sprogs, quiverful;

Law issue.

5 a member of the weaver bird family:

taxonomic group, group, order, class, subclass, genus, species;

stock, strain, line;

technical taxon, phylum.