Family & Relationships

Parents, siblings, partners, friends, and the wider web of kin.

243 words

# Family & Relationships

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 243

## About
Parents, siblings, partners, friends, and the wider web of kin.

## Words by Level

### A1
- father - A male parent.
- dad - A father; a male parent (informal).
- mother - A female parent; a woman who has or raises a child.
- son - A person's male child.
- mom - Mother (informal).
- family - A group of people who are related, especially parents and their children.
- brother - A boy or man who has the same parents as you
- wife - The woman a man is married to.
- daughter - A person's female child.
- husband - The man that a woman is married to.
- sister - a girl or woman who has the same parents as you
- uncle - The brother of your mother or father, or your aunt's husband.
- daddy - A father; used especially by or to young children (informal).
- mum - A child's word for mother.
- boyfriend - A male partner in a romantic relationship.
- Mrs. - A title used before the name of a married woman.
- partner - A person you do an activity or share a business with.
- aunt - The sister of your mother or father, or your uncle's wife.
- mommy - Mother (an affectionate word used especially by children).
- grandma - Your grandmother (informal).
- cousin - The child of your aunt or uncle.
- grandpa - Your grandfather (informal).
- grandfather - The father of your father or mother.
- grandmother - The mother of your father or mother.
- parent - A person's mother or father.
- supermarket - A large shop where you serve yourself and buy food and other household goods.
- grandparent - A parent of your father or mother.

### A2
- birth - The time when a baby is born or comes out of its mother.
- married - Having a husband or a wife.
- marry - To become someone's husband or wife.
- queen - A woman who rules a country, usually because she was born into a royal family.
- royal - Belonging to or connected with a king, queen, or their family.
- affair - A secret romantic or sexual relationship, usually involving someone who is married.
- friendship - A relationship between friends.
- grandson - The son of your son or daughter.
- granddaughter - The daughter of your son or daughter.
- granddad - Your grandfather (informal).
- clone - A copy of something made to look or work just like the original.
- surname - The family name shared by members of a family, used after the first name.
- ancestor - A person in your family who lived a long time ago, before your grandparents.
- grandchild - A child of your son or daughter.
- comparative - Measured or judged by comparing one thing with another; relative.
- dependant - a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

### B1
- prince - The son of a king or queen, or a male member of a royal family.
- princess - A daughter or granddaughter of a king or queen.
- marriage - The legal or formal union of two people as partners for life.
- relationship - The way in which two or more people, groups, or things are connected or behave toward each other.
- bull - A large adult male of the cattle family
- divorced - No longer married because your marriage has been legally ended.
- nephew - The son of your brother or sister.
- honeymoon - A holiday taken by a couple just after they get married.
- niece - The daughter of your brother or sister.
- relative - A member of your family.
- faithful - Loyal and able to be trusted over time.
- household - All the people who live together in one house.
- relation - The way in which two or more things are connected.
- motherland - The country where you were born or where your family comes from.
- parental - Relating to or typical of a parent.
- unrelated - Not connected with each other
- cheat - To break the rules in order to gain an unfair advantage.
- related - Connected with something, especially by sharing a topic, cause, or quality.
- fiance - a man who is engaged to be married
- kiddie - a young child; an informal and sometimes affectionate term
- godmother - a female godparent who sponsors a child at baptism and traditionally supports the child's religious upbringing
- great-grandfather - the grandfather of one of your parents; the father of a grandparent
- girlhood - the period of life when a female person is a girl

### B2
- mama - An informal, affectionate word for mother.
- divorce - The legal ending of a marriage.
- madame - A title used before the name of a French-speaking married woman, like Mrs.
- widow - A woman whose husband has died.
- brother-in-law - The brother of your husband or wife, or the husband of your sister
- adopted - Taken into a family as a legal son or daughter.
- sister-in-law - the sister of your husband or wife, or your brother's wife
- intimate - Very close and friendly; sharing a warm personal relationship.
- son-in-law - The husband of your daughter.
- grocery - A shop that sells food and household goods.
- mother-in-law - The mother of your husband or wife.
- father-in-law - The father of your husband or wife.
- involvement - The act of taking part in something, or the state of being connected to it
- daughter-in-law - The wife of your son.
- dowry - Money or property that a bride brings to her husband when they marry.
- breakup - The end of a romantic relationship or friendship.
- stepfather - The man who is married to your mother but is not your biological father.
- stepmother - The woman who is married to your father but is not your biological mother.
- linen - A strong cloth or thread made from the flax plant.
- sibling - A brother or sister.
- filial - Relating to or suitable for a son or daughter, especially in their duty toward parents.
- missus - a man's wife or female partner; informal, especially in British English
- fiancee - a woman who is engaged to be married
- inheritor - a person who receives property, a title, or another possession by inheritance
- snuggle - to settle closely and comfortably against someone or something for warmth, affection, or comfort
- motherly - showing the warmth, care, and protectiveness associated with a mother
- unromantic - not expressing romantic love or affection; lacking romantic feeling or behavior
- godfather - a male godparent who sponsors a child's baptism and traditionally supports the child's religious upbringing
- fatherly - showing the kindness, protectiveness, guidance, or concern associated with a good father
- cherisher - a person who protects, values, or lovingly cares for someone or something
- fatherhood - the state, role, or experience of being a father

### C1
- offspring - A person's child or children.
- spouse - A husband or wife.
- maternal - Like a mother; caring and protective in the way a mother is.
- paternal - Related to you through your father's side of the family.
- domestically - Within a country, rather than abroad.
- tot - informal: a very young child
- infancy - the earliest period of childhood
- comradeship - friendship, trust, and solidarity among people who live, work, or face difficulty together
- flirtation - playful behavior that shows romantic or sexual interest without necessarily implying serious intent
- wifely - of, relating to, or traditionally regarded as characteristic of a wife; now often old-fashioned
- elopement - the act of secretly running away with a partner in order to marry, often without family approval
- intermarry - for members of different families, communities, ethnic groups, or religions to marry one another
- intermarriage - marriage between people from different racial, ethnic, religious, social, or national groups
- incest - sexual relations between people whose close family relationship makes such relations illegal or socially prohibited
- patriarch - the male head of a family, tribe, or social group
- grandpapa - an informal or old-fashioned term for one's grandfather
- estrangement - the state or process of losing affection, trust, or contact in a personal relationship

### C2
- paternity - the state of being a father
- procreate - have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- spousal - relating to a spouse
- virginal - Pure and untouched; like a virgin.
- sterility - The condition of being unable to produce children or offspring.
- correlate - To have a close connection or relationship with something else, so that they change together.
- polyamorous - involving or open to romantic relationships with more than one partner, with everyone informed and consenting
- pap - US dialect: father; pa
- suckle - to feed by drawing milk from a breast or udder
- betroth - to formally promise someone in marriage or become formally engaged to marry
- conjugal - relating to marriage or the relationship between spouses
- coquetry - playfully flirtatious behavior intended to attract interest, often without serious romantic intent
- matrimonial - relating to marriage or to the relationship between married partners
- hymeneal - relating to marriage or a wedding; nuptial, chiefly in literary use
- kinsman - a male relative, especially one belonging to the same extended family; now often literary or historical
- monogamy - the practice or state of being married to only one person at a time
- consanguinity - relationship by descent from a common ancestor; blood kinship
- incestuous - involving or characterized by sexual relations between people too closely related to marry legally
- patronymic - a name derived from the given name of a person's father or a male ancestor
- polyandrist - a person who practices polyandry; in its marital sense, a woman who has more than one husband at the same time
- connubial - relating to marriage or the relationship between spouses
- childbearing - the process or period of carrying and giving birth to children
- fosterage - the practice or process of raising another person's child as one's own, especially as a historical social custom
- godson - a male godchild, especially one whose baptism is sponsored by a godparent
- elope - to leave secretly in order to marry, or to marry privately without a public ceremony or advance announcement
- jilt - to suddenly reject or abandon a romantic partner, especially shortly before an expected marriage
- foundling - an abandoned infant or child whose parents are unknown
- endearment - a word, name, gesture, or action that expresses affection
- amatory - literary: relating to or expressive of romantic or sexual love
- swaddle - to wrap a baby closely in cloth so that its arms and legs are held securely
- banns - a public announcement, traditionally made in church, of an intended marriage
- kinfolk - old-fashioned or regional: one's relatives or family considered collectively
- cohabit - to live together as an intimate couple, especially without being married
- monogamist - a person who has only one spouse or romantic partner at a time, or who advocates that practice
- kinswoman - a female relative; a woman belonging to the same family or kin group
- affiance - archaic: to promise someone in marriage; to betroth
- dandle - to move a baby or small child playfully up and down in one's arms or on one's knee
- inamorata - literary or humorous: a woman with whom someone is in love; a female lover
- filiation - the relationship of a child to a parent, especially as legally or genealogically established
- betrothal - a formal agreement or mutual promise to marry; an engagement
- stirp - a line of descent from a common ancestor; a stock or lineage
- née - used before a married woman's birth surname
- bridesmaid - a person, traditionally a woman, who attends and supports a bride at a wedding
- wedlock - the state of being married, especially in the phrases in wedlock and out of wedlock
- groomsman - a man who attends and supports a bridegroom at a wedding
- exogamy - marriage outside a defined kinship or social group, especially when required by custom or law
- assignation - often dated: a secret appointment to meet, especially between lovers
- sonship - the state, status, or relation of being a son
- grandmamma - Grandmother.
- grandsire - a grandfather, especially in old-fashioned or literary language
- misalliance - an unsuitable or ill-judged partnership or alliance
- amour - a love affair, especially one kept secret or considered illicit
- nursling - literary: a young child or animal being nursed or cared for
- homecoming - a coming to or returning home
- matchmaker - someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others
- amorist - a person devoted to love or lovemaking; a lover

### C2+
- da - father (dialectal or informal)
- fertile - capable of producing abundant growth or offspring; productive
- gull - a seabird of the family Laridae; also, to deceive or cheat someone
- kin - one's family and relations collectively
- sire - a male parent of an animal, or a respectful address to a king
- avuncular - kind and genial in the manner of an uncle
- chore - a routine or tedious task, especially a household one
- crossbreed - to breed from two different varieties; the offspring so produced
- matrimony - the state or ceremony of being married; marriage
- adder - a small venomous snake of the viper family
- affinity - a natural attraction, kinship, or close relationship
- ancestry - one's family or ethnic descent; lineage
- annul - to declare invalid or void, especially a law or marriage
- auntie - an aunt (affectionate or familiar form)
- bae - a romantic partner or sweetheart (slang)
- beget - to father offspring; to give rise to
- consort - a spouse, especially of a reigning monarch; to associate with
- dysfunction - abnormal or impaired functioning of a system, organ, or relationship
- empress - a female sovereign ruler of an empire, or the wife of an emperor
- fatherling - a little or dear father (an archaic affectionate term)
- fecundity - the ability to produce abundant offspring or fruit; fertility
- fertility - the ability to produce offspring or abundant vegetation
- granddaddy - a grandfather; the oldest or largest example of its kind
- helpmeet - a helpful companion or partner, especially a spouse
- hubby - an informal or affectionate term for a husband
- kindred - one's family and relations; related or similar in nature
- lineage - direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry
- maternity - the state of being a mother; motherhood
- progenitor - an ancestor or originator of a line or movement
- unattached - not joined to or connected with anything; not in a romantic relationship
- widower - a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried
- acquaintanceship - the state of knowing someone slightly; a casual relationship
- bandfish - a small elongated red marine fish of the family Cepolidae
- bridechamber - archaic the bedroom of a newly married couple; the nuptial chamber
- brotherly - of or befitting a brother; affectionate and loyal
- divorcement - the act of divorcing or separating; dissolution of marriage
- enemyship - the state or relationship of being enemies (rare)
- fam - informal term for one's family or close friends
- familial - relating to or characteristic of a family
- forebear - an ancestor
- forefather - an ancestor, especially a male one
- genitor - a biological father or male progenitor
- handfast - a betrothal or marriage sealed by clasping hands; to pledge thus
- helpmate - a companion and helper, especially a spouse
- hinny - the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey
- husbandly - of or befitting a husband; marital
- kinship - blood relationship or a sense of affinity
- ma - (informal) mother
- mam - a familiar or dialectal word for one's mother
- mayoress - a female mayor, or the wife of a mayor
- mummy - a preserved embalmed body, or an informal word for mother
- mutualist - an advocate of mutualism, or an organism in a mutual relationship
- mutuality - the state of sharing a feeling, action, or relationship reciprocally
- neighborship - the state or relationship of being neighbors
- nuncle - uncle (archaic, especially as used by a fool to a master)
- nuptials - a wedding or marriage ceremony
- papa - an affectionate or childish term for one's father
- pater - father, used as a dated or jocular British term
- procreation - the production of offspring; reproduction
- regression - a return to an earlier or less developed state; a statistical relationship
- relativeness - the quality of being relative rather than absolute
- seneschal - a steward or major-domo in charge of a great medieval household
- sib - a sibling or blood relative; related by kinship
- sis - an informal term for sister
- spirea - a flowering shrub of the rose family with clustered white or pink blooms
- stepbrother - a son of one's stepparent by an earlier marriage
- stepchild - a child of one's spouse from a previous relationship
- stepdaughter - a daughter of one's spouse by a former partner
- stepniece - a niece by marriage; the daughter of a stepsibling
- stepsister - a daughter of one's stepparent by an earlier marriage
- stepson - a son of one's spouse by a former partner
- sterile - free from living germs, or unable to produce offspring
- philoprogenitive - producing many offspring; prolific

A1 (27)

A2 (16) Pro

B1 (23) Pro

B2 (31) Pro

C1 (17) Pro

C2 (56) Pro

C2+ (73) Pro

More topics

Keyboard Shortcuts

General