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family | American Dictionary

family
noun
us/ˈfæm·ə·li, ˈfæm·li/

familynoun (PARENTS AND CHILDREN)

[ C/U ]
a social group of parents, children, and sometimes grandparents, uncles, aunts, and others who are related:
[ C ]Her family moved here when she was eleven.
[ U ]Many people cope with the demands of both career and family.
[ C ]She wants to get married and have a family (= have children).

familynoun (BIOLOGICAL TYPE)

[ C ] biology
a large group of related types of animals or plants:
The lion is a member of the cat family.

Examples of family

family
This may include planning a further move to housing offering a greater degree of shelter, or even greater reliance on families.
Under these plans, convicts were granted access to land and encouraged to bring their families from the mainland.
In rice fields, these three families or subfamilies made up 63% of species and 86% of all individuals present.
Only in a small proportion of cases were referrals made purely on grounds of existing illness in patient or family.
Psychological therapies, family treatments and vocational rehabilitation are described.
In the compensation plans for injured workers and the victim's family, workers with longer tenure were rewarded.
We collected 2681 fishes, representing 46 species and 10 families.
The morbid risk represents the percentage of family members who develop the specific disorder.
Twenty-six of the 30 who reported sterilization said they had a family physician.
After death, family members reported the actual family involvement in health care decisions near death.
Some surrogates need to review what the patient and/or family has experienced in the past with end of life issues.
Their families, recruited from local birth records, had agreed to participate with their children in a longitudinal study of language development.
The families were recruited from local birth records.
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Collocations withfamily

family

These are words often used in combination with family.

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adoptive family
Genetic liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorder and an adoptive family rearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.
aristocratic family
He was a scion of an old aristocratic family, a fact of which he was notoriously proud.
bereaved family
Researchers received special training for sensitive data collection among bereaved family members and conducted interviews in the respondent's own home.
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