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EtymologyModificar

Latin familia, from famula (“‘female servant’”).

PronunciationModificar

• IPA: /ˈfæməli/, SAMPA: /"f{m@li/

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• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧ly

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1. (countable) A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.

   Her nuclear family was very small.

2. (countable) A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.
3. (countable) A kin, tribe; also called extended family.
4. (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

   Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

   • Patrono:RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V

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5. (countable) A group of people who live together.

   This is my fraternity family at the university.

6. (countable) A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.

   Our company is one big happy family.

7. (uncountable) Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group.

   They treated me like family.

8. (countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
9. (countable, music) A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.

   the brass family

   the violin family

10. (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

    the Indo-European language family

    the Afro-Asiatic language family

11. Used attributively.

    The dog was kept as a family pet.

    For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.

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In some dialects, family is used as a plurale tantum.

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• See also Wikisaurus:class

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AdjectiveModificar

1. Suitable for children and adults.

   It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.

   Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.

2. Conservative, traditonal.

   The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

3. (slang) Homosexual.

   I knew he was family when I first met him.

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Related termsModificar

• familial
• familiar, familiarity
• familicide

See alsoModificar

• Category:Family

External linksModificar

• Family in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Family in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• 15px family on Wikipedia.Wikipediaang:family

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