Dictionary Entry
family
family is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
- 2transitive verb
The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
- 3transitive verb
Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
- 4transitive verb
Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
- 5transitive verb
Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
- 6transitive verb
A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
- 7transitive verb
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; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
- 8noun
primary social group; parents and children
"he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
- 9noun
people descended from a common ancestor
"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
- 10noun
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
"there are two classes of detergents"
- 11noun
a social unit living together
"he moved his family to Virginia"
"It was a good Christian household"
- 12noun
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
"sharks belong to the fish family"
- 13noun
an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
"the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"
"the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
Synonyms
- 14noun
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- 15noun
a person having kinship with another or others
"he's kin"
"he's family"
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