Family Children I ˈfæməli Group Movie Parents Young

• i introduced neil to the other members of my family.
• the event promises games and fun for the entire family.
• this is a summer movie for the whole family.
• every family has its own story to tell.

family

1. a group consisting of one or two parents and their children
• SEE ALSO blended family
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/blended-family
• I introduced Neil to the other members of my family.
• The event promises games and fun for the entire family.
• This is a summer movie for the whole family.
• Every family has its own story to tell.
• All my family enjoy skiing.
• one-parent/single-parent families
• Taking a family of four to the cinema is expensive.
• families with young children
• He's a friend of the family (= he is known and liked by the parents and the children).
• From early childhood he was a mystery to the rest of his family.
• He barely earns enough money to pay his rent and feed his family.
• She works tirelessly to provide for her family.

Extra Examples

• They help find emotionally damaged children placements with adoptive families.
• It is difficult for them to earn enough to feed their families.
• issues which create conflict within the family
• tax incentives for low-income families
• Many of our students come from poor families.
2. a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations
• SEE ALSO extended family
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/extended-family
• All our family came to Grandad's eightieth birthday party.
• The support of family and friends is vital.
• We've only told the immediate family (= the closest relations).
• the royal family (= the children and close relations of the king or queen)
• I always think of you as one of the family.
• There are a lot of girls in our family.
• Nobody outside his family knew that he had a daughter.
• We all knew her so well that we felt she was almost part of the family.
• She's family (= she is a relation).
• We have family in France.

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• We are a very close-knit family and support each other through any crises.
• a helpline set up to counsel bereaved families
• a counselling agency to help bereaved families
• These problems occur in all families.
• She grew up in a military family.
• She married into a wealthy family.
• The movie is a portrait of a dysfunctional family.
3. all the people who are related to each other, including those who are now dead
• Some families have farmed in this area for hundreds of years.
• This painting has been in our family for generations.
• He belonged to an aristocratic family.
• She has Muslim heritage on her father's side of the family.
4. a couple’s or a person’s children, especially young children
• They have a large family.
• I addressed it to Mr and Mrs Jones and family.
• Do they plan to start a family (= have children)?
• This is a wonderful place to raise a family.
• She brought up a family of six children on her own.
• She chose to stop work to have a family.

Extra Examples

• They got married last year and plan to start a family soon.
• Average family size has decreased since the Victorian era.
• parents with young families
• I always wanted to have a large family.
• It's a struggle to bring up a family on a low income.
5. a group into which animals, plants, etc. that have similar characteristics are divided, smaller than an order and larger than a genus
• Lions belong to the cat family.
• This bird is a member of the crow family.
• Orchids are the largest family of flowering plants.
6. a group of related languages
• SEE ALSO word family
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/word-family
• the Germanic family of languages
7. (to be/become) pregnant
8. to be a common feature in a particular family
• Heart disease runs in the family.
• a medical condition which runs in the family

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in sense (3); also denoting the servants of a household or the retinue of a nobleman): from Latin familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.