- clan
- folk
- group
- house
- household
- people
- tribe
- ancestors
- ancestry
- birth
- blood
- brood
- children
- class
- descendants
- descent
- dynasty
- extraction
- forebears
- genealogy
- generations
- genre
- in-laws
- inheritance
- issue
- kind
- kindred
- line
- lineage
- network
- parentage
- pedigree
- progenitors
- progeny
- race
- relations
- relationship
- relatives
- siblings
- strain
- subdivision
- system
- heirs and assigns
- kith and kin
- menage
- ménage
On this page you’ll find 101 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to family, such as: clan, folk, group, house, household, and people.
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And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
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WORDS RELATED TO FAMILY
- cosa nostra
- family
- mafioso
- underworld
- affiliation
- alliance
- band
- bunch
- circle
- clan
- clique
- club
- coalition
- combination
- combo
- company
- confederacy
- confederation
- congress
- cooperative
- corporation
- crew
- crowd
- family
- federation
- fellowship
- fraternity
- gang
- guild
- hookup
- league
- mob
- order
- organization
- outfit
- partnership
- pool
- rat pack
- ring
- society
- sodality
- sorority
- syndicate
- tie up
- tie-in
- tribe
- troops
- troupe
- union
- zoo
- acquaintances
- acquaintanceships
- affiliations
- agreements
- assistance
- camaraderies
- companionship
- comradeship
- conjunctions
- cooperations
- familiarities
- fellowships
- fraternization
- frequentings
- friendliness
- hookups
- intimacies
- memberships
- participations
- partnerships
- relations
- relationships
- birth
- consanguinity
- descendants
- descent
- extraction
- family
- kindred
- kinship
- line
- lineage
- origin
- pedigree
- relations
- stock
- biological relationship
- blood
- blood brother
- blood relationship
- blood relative
- blood sister
- consanguinean
- family
- flesh
- flesh and blood
- genetic relationship
- kindred
- ties of blood
- uterine kin
- birth
- blood
- descent
- extraction
- family
- genealogy
- heritage
- line of descent
- lineage
- origin
- parentage
- pedigree
- stock
- strain
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as in clan
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor
the Adams family made remarkable contributions to American life for more than two centuries
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as in kind
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, and other members of the woodwind family
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blood relationship, clannish, cognate, consanguine, domestic, en.synonym.one, familial, home, kin, kindred, related, abode, ancestry, antecedents, birth, birthplace, en.synonym.one, blood, blood relation, breed, brood, category, children, clan, class, classification, community, consanguinity, crime syndicate, culture, descent, dwelling, extraction, family line, family unit, fellowship, fireside, en.synonym.one, flock, folk, folks, form, generation, genus, group, haven, hearth, home, homestead, house, household, humanity, kin, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsperson, kith, kith and kin, line, lineage, en.synonym.one, litter, man, mankind, menage, mob, nation, offspring, order, pedigree, people, phratry, progeny, race, relations, relative, residence, run, sibling, sort, species, status, stock, strain, subdivision, syndicate, tribe, type.
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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fam—uh-lee, fam-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæm ə li, ˈfæm li |
Top 10 synonyms for family
Other synonyms for the word family
- blood
- brood
- children
- class
- descendants
- descent
- dynasty
- extraction
- forebears
- genealogy
- generations
- genre
- heirs and assigns
- in-laws
- inheritance
- issue
- kind
- kindred
- kith and kin
- line
- lineage
- menage
- network
- parentage
- pedigree
- progenitors
- progeny
- race
- relations
- relationship
- relatives
- siblings
- strain
- subdivision
- system
Définition of family
Origin :
- early 15c., «servants of a household,» from Latin familia «family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,» thus also «members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,» from famulus «servant,» of unknown origin. The Latin word rarely appears in the sense «parents with their children,» for which domus (see domestic) was used.
- In English, sense of «collective body of persons who form one household under one head and one domestic government, including parents, children, and servants, and as sometimes used even lodgers or boarders» [Century Dictionary] is from 1540s. From 1660s as «parents with their children, whether they dwell together or not,» also in a more general sense, «persons closely related by blood, including aunts, uncles, cousins;» and in the most general sense «those who descend from a common progenitor» (1580s). Meaning «those claiming descent from a common ancestor, a house, a lineage» is early 15c. Hence, «any group of things classed as kindred based on common distinguishing characteristics» (1620s); as a scientific classification, between genus and order, from 1753.
- I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. [William Butler Yeats, «Autobiography»]
- Replaced Old English hiwscipe. As an adjective from c.1600; with the meaning «suitable for a family,» by 1807. Family values first recorded 1966. Phrase in a family way «pregnant» is from 1796. Family circle is 1809; family man «man devoted to wife and children, man inclined to lead a domestic life» is 1856 (earlier it meant «thief,» 1788, from family in a slang sense of «the fraternity of thieves»).
- Happy family an assemblage of animals of diverse habits and propensities living amicably, or at least quietly, together in one cage. [Century Dictionary, 1902]
- The phrase is attested from 1844.
- noun kin, offspring; classification
Example sentences :
- No one of our kindred must enter the family of Pericles as a slave.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- While I have gathered foreign jewels, I have been ignorant of the gems in my own family.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- The trouble is that we’ve just had to cut that fine old New York family off our list.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Here, perchance, may be found a clue in symbol to the family strife.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- The home of the Birkenholt family was not one of the least delightful.
- Extract from : « The Armourer’s Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- You used to support your family comfortably when you had one.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- If the worst came, he could go West with the family and learn how to do something.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- This Mauburn isn’t good enough for your family, but you reckon he’s good enough for me?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He said «It is Light» and he used the rays of the early sun to gather food for his family.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Every family lived and hunted and worked and died for and by itself.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Antonyms for family
- parent
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