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families

noun

Meaning

  1. A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
  2. An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  3. A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  4. Lineage, especially an honorable one
  5. A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  6. 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.
  7. A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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