families
noun
Meaning
- 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.
- An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- Lineage, especially an honorable one
- A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- 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.
- A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.
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