Definition of family :
1. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
2. 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.
3. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
4. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
5. 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.
6. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
7. 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.
common people, seed, descent, mob, family unit, domicile, planetary house, division, tier, blood relation, kin group, folk music, star sign, stratum, dependent, the Brady Bunch, birth, family line, mansion, business firm, harem, companionship, kinsfolk, colony, ancestry, homely, syndicate, gang, home plate, pool, clansman, alliance, league, habitation, folks, black sheep, pack, fellowship, extraction, direct, generic, firm, eldest, socio-economic class, company, clanswoman, tribe, rabble, house, nursing home, rout, course of study, rest home, base, abode, rubric, place, kindred, ethnic music, dwelling house, subspecies, genealogy, parentage, ring, coterie, course of instruction, sign, dwelling, elder, home base, sept, bloodline, phratry, theatre, affinity, social class, kinship group, illegitimacy, close, theater, distant, crime syndicate, sign of the zodiac, consortium, the elder, kinsperson, filial, course, precede, pedigree, bracket, menage, relationship, year, illegitimate, legitimate, charge, origin, plate, commune
domestic (part of speech: adjective)
kindred (part of speech: adjective)
category (part of speech: noun)
kingdom, rank, step, persuasion, category, stamp, people, feather, breed, genotype, series, strain, variety, classification, make, stripe, grade, grain, sort, genus, set, form, level, mold, style, kind, order, ilk, denomination, caste, type, species, taxonomy, label, brand, class, race, degree, designation, line, stock, phylum
kinship (part of speech: noun)
fatherhood, motherhood, kinfolk, ancestor, cousin, lineage, brotherhood, heredity, father, kinship, niece, fraternity, relation, nephew, blood, maternity, flesh, mother, aunt, sisterhood, sister, paternity, uncle, kin, clan, brother, consanguinity, relative
posterity (part of speech: noun)
mankind (part of speech: noun)
- I don't think any other girl ever had such a family as mine!" - "Pixie O'Shaughnessy", Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey.
- But her family was more, far more, to her than her world was. - "The Quality of Mercy", W. D. Howells.
- Let us always think of these men who knew each other well as a family. - "Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies", Thomas Tapper.