Word

family, n.
(families)
freq. cnt. 135

a social unit living together
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 74 freq. cnt.: 66 freq. cnt.: 8

family home house household menage

sample sentences

"he moved his family to Virginia"
"It was a good Christian household"
"I waited until the whole house was asleep"
"the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
"the family refused to accept his will"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

householder

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

home

semantic pointers

hyponym

broken home nuclear family, conjugal family extended family foster family foster home menage a trois

hypernym

unit, social unit

primary social group; parents and children
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 52 freq. cnt.: 52

family family unit

sample sentences

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

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

familial

semantic pointers

hypernym

clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, tribe

hyponym

couple, mates, match marriage, married couple, man and wife

instance hyponym

Bronte sisters Marx Brothers

member meronym

child, kid parent sibling, sib

a collection of things sharing a common attribute
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 40 freq. cnt.: 17 freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 8

category class family

sample sentences

"there are two classes of detergents"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

categorial categoric categorical categorize

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

classify class classify

semantic pointers

hyponym

grammatical category, syntactic category substitution class, paradigm brass family violin family woodwind family stamp sex declension conjugation denomination histocompatibility complex

hypernym

collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

member meronym

superphylum

people descended from a common ancestor
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

family family line folk kinfolk kinsfolk phratry sept

sample sentences

"his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

semantic pointers

hypernym

ancestry, lineage, line, pedigree, blood, stock, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, origin, parentage, stemma

hyponym

people homefolk house dynasty name, gens

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

family

sample sentences

"sharks belong to the fish family"

semantic pointers

member meronym

Bunyaviridae Togaviridae Flaviviridae Arenaviridae Rhabdoviridae Reoviridae subfamily tribe genus

hyponym

domain of synset (topic)

biology, biological science

hypernym

taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon

member holonym

order

a person having kinship with another or others
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

family kin kinsperson

sample sentences

"he's kin"
"he's family"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

familial

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

kin kinship

semantic pointers

hyponym

affine

hypernym

relative, relation

an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7

family fellowship

sample sentences

"the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"
"the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

fellow

semantic pointers

hypernym

association

hyponym

koinonia

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

crime syndicate family mob syndicate

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

mobster

semantic pointers

hypernym

organized crime, gangland, gangdom

hyponym

Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra