family

A1 Topic:Family & Relationships

Also spelled fambly

US /ˈfæ.m(ə )li/ UK /ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li/ See IPA manual

noun Freq #263

Meanings

1

noun
A group of people who are related, especially parents and their children.

Our family lives in town.
2

noun
All the people related to you, including those long ago.

Our family has lived in Massachusetts for generations.
3

noun
A group of related animals or plants in scientific classification.

Lions and tigers belong to the cat family.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a group of people who are... house

2 noun · all the people related to... folk

More class fam kin kinfolk

Word family

Forms families

Derived forms antifamilybatfamilybefamiliedbiofamilybirthfamilyepifamilyfamfamilectfamiliedfamiliocracyfamilistfamily-friendliness

Related forms class division domain familial familiar familiarityfamilicidegenus kingdom order phylum species

Common collocations

Etymology

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.

*dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European famylye Middle English familia Latin

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Family & Relationships

# family

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈfæ.m(ə )li
**IPA (UK):** ˈfæ.m(ɪ.)li
**Frequency rank:** 263

## Meanings
1. A group of people who are related, especially parents and their children.
2. All the people related to you, including those long ago.
3. A group of related animals or plants in scientific classification.

## Examples
- Our family lives in town.
- Our family has lived in Massachusetts for generations.
- Lions and tigers belong to the cat family.

## Synonyms
- class
- fam
- kin
- kinfolk

## Derived Forms
- antifamily
- batfamily
- befamilied
- biofamily
- birthfamily
- epifamily
- fam
- familect
- familied
- familiocracy
- familist
- family-friendliness

## Related Forms
- class
- division
- domain
- familial
- familiar
- familiarity
- familicide
- genus
- kingdom
- order
- phylum
- species

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *dʰeh₁-
- Root: famylye
- Root: familia

## Etymology
From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia.

## AI Etymology
Family comes from Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred. Doublet of familia. In current use, the main senses are “A group of people who are related, especially parents and their children” and “All the people related to you, including those long ago”.

## Topics
- Family & Relationships

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