nuclear familyspecialized

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

your relatives
relativeAll my relatives gather every year for a family reunion.
extended familyHe has a very large extended family.
relationShe is a distant relation of his, though I don't quite remember how.
kinHe remained true to his kin.
mother's/father's side (of the family)I have aunts and uncles on my mother's side of the family.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Family: relations in general
anti-family
aunt
auntie
baby daddy
baby mama
father
fatherhood
filial
filially
first cousin
kinsman
kinswoman
kith and kin
long-lost
loved one
relationship
relative
removed
second cousin
sib

Examples from literature

A lot of people in his employ and in his extended family tiptoed around Jake, always careful of triggering his wrath. 

extended family | American Dictionary

extended family
noun[ C ]
us/ɪkˈsten·dɪd ˈfæm·ə·li, ˈfæm·li/
a family that includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others in addition to parents and children

Examples of extended family

extended family
The extendedfamily structure is no longer as strong as it once was.
A strong feature is that the book includes case studies of extendedfamily systems as well as nuclear family systems.
Having an extendedfamily, however, did not always guarantee a role.
One wonders about the role of extendedfamily contact in this kind of tradition.
The extendedfamily was clearly still an important source of leisure and companionship within the lives of many women in the 1940s and beyond.
It should be noted that for the purposes of the present research, family is defined as the extendedfamily.
The conjugal bond has strengthened, and has weakened the traditionally strong bonds with siblings, parents and other relatives of the extendedfamily.
Even the wives of very rich zamindars had to cook for the members of the extendedfamily as well as the never-ending stream of house-guests.
To this we added the number of extendedfamily members with international migratory experience in either destination prior to the household year in question.
Although our society may be suffering from the decline of the extendedfamily, most patients still come to the hospital with close, concerned others.
A variation to include extendedfamily members only occurs if such immediate members are absent.
The receiving and giving items are current instrumental behaviours in the extendedfamily involving money, time, companion help and advice.
My husband (and the extendedfamily) left for the village.
These members of the extendedfamily or relatives are expected to contribute draft labor and/or draft to the landholder's fields.
An extendedfamily with a dominantly inherited speech disorder.
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