family
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Example
“Our family lives in town.”
Other meanings
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
“The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.”
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "familia" (a household).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “family” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.