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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
5. transitive verb. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
6. transitive verb. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
7. transitive 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.
8. noun. primary social group; parents and children

   "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

9. noun. people descended from a common ancestor

   "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

   Synonyms: folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept

10. noun. a collection of things sharing a common attribute

    "there are two classes of detergents"

    Synonyms: category, class

11. noun. a social unit living together

    "he moved his family to Virginia"

    "It was a good Christian household"

    Synonyms: home, house, household, menage

12. noun. (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

    "sharks belong to the fish family"

13. noun. 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: fellowship

14. noun. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

    Synonyms: mob, syndicate

15. noun. a person having kinship with another or others

    "he's kin"

    "he's family"

    Synonyms: kin, kinsperson

Synonyms

folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, category, class, home, house, household, menage, fellowship, mob, syndicate, kin, kinsperson

Common word forms

families

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