family

• a collection of things sharing a common attribute
• a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
• a social unit living together
• primary social group
• people descended from a common ancestor
• a person having kinship with another or others
• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
• The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager
• The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society
• Those who descend from one common progenitor
• Course of descent
• Honorable descent
• A group of kindred or closely related individuals
• A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order

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