French Meaning of family
famille
Other French words related to famille
Nearest Words of family
- family acanthaceae => Acanthacées
- family acanthisittidae => Familie des Acanthisittidae
- family acanthuridae => Famille des Acanthuridae
- family acaridae => Famille des Acaridae
- family accipitridae => Accipitridae
- family aceraceae => Famille des Acéracées
- family acipenseridae => famille des acipenséridés
- family acrididae => Acrididae
- family actinidiaceae => Actinidiaceae
- family actinomycetaceae => Famille actinomycetaceae
Definitions and Meaning of family in English
family (n)
a social unit living together
primary social group; parents and children
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
people descended from a common ancestor
a person having kinship with another or others
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
family (v. t.)
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.
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; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
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.
FAQs About the word family
famille
a social unit living together, primary social group; parents and children, a collection of things sharing a common attribute, people descended from a common anc
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naissance,descente,extraction,origine,ascendance,Pedigree
familistical => familialiste, familistic => Familial, familistery => familial, familisteries => Familistères, familist => familialiste,