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fam·i·ly

F0027000 (făm′ə-lē, făm′lē)n. pl. fam·i·lies 1. a. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.b. The children of one of these groups: She raised a large family.c. A group of persons related by descent or marriage: My whole family, including my cousins, gets together once a year. See Usage Note at collective noun.2. People in the same line of descent; lineage: comes from an old Virginia family.3. Obsolete All the members of a household living under one roof.4. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.5. a. A group of like things; a class: the family of brass instruments.b. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.6. Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.7. Linguistics A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.8. Mathematics A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.9. Chemistry a. A group of elements with similar chemical properties.b. A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.10. Physics Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.adj.1. Of or having to do with a family: family problems.2. Being suitable for a family: family movies.Idiom: in the family way Pregnant.
[Middle English familie, from Latin familia, household, servants of a household, from famulus, servant.]

family

(ˈfæmɪlɪ; ˈfæmlɪ) n, pl -lies1. (Sociology) a. a primary social group consisting of parents and their offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its membersb. (as modifier): family quarrels; a family unit. 2. one's wife or husband and one's children3. one's children, as distinguished from one's husband or wife4. (Genetics) a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor. Compare extended family5. all the persons living together in one household6. any group of related things or beings, esp when scientifically categorized7. (Biology) biology any of the taxonomic groups into which an order is divided and which contains one or more genera. Felidae (cat family) and Canidae (dog family) are two families of the order Carnivora8. (Biology) ecology a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community9. (Linguistics) a group of historically related languages assumed to derive from one original language10. (Law) chiefly US an independent local group of the Mafia11. (Mathematics) maths a group of curves or surfaces whose equations differ from a given equation only in the values assigned to one or more constants in each curve: a family of concentric circles. 12. (General Physics) physics the isotopes, collectively, that comprise a radioactive series13. in the family way informal pregnant[C15: from Latin familia a household, servants of the house, from famulus servant]

fam•i•ly

(ˈfæm ə li, ˈfæm li)

n., pl. -lies,
adj. n. 1. parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not. 2. the children of one person or one couple collectively. 3. the spouse and children of one person. 4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins. 5. all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor. 6. a group of persons who form a household, esp. under one head. 7. the staff, or body of assistants, of an official: the presidential family. 8. a group of related things: the halogen family of elements. 9. a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals. 10. Biol. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usu. consisting of several genera. 11. Ling. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty. Compare stock (def. 12), subfamily (def. 2). 12. a local unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra. adj. 13. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a family: a family trait. 14. belonging to or used by a family. 15. a. suitable or appropriate for adults and children: a family amusement park. b. not containing obscene language: a family newspaper. Idioms: in a or the family way, pregnant. [1350–1400; Middle English familie < Latin familia] usage: See collective noun.

fam·i·ly

(făm′ə-lē) A group of organisms ranking above a genus and below an order. See Table at taxonomy.

family

- First referred to the servants of a household and then to both the servants and the descendants of a common ancestor. It comes from Latin familia, "household; household servants," which came from another Latin term, famulus, "servant." It was not until 1667 that the term was used specifically for parents and their children.See also related terms for servants.

Family

 an assembly of objects with some common feature; a body of servants in a house; the members of a family. See also clan, set.Examples: family of curves, 1741; of gladiators; of languages, 1875; of legends; of myths; of servants, 1722; of thieves, 1749; of yews, 1731.
Thesaurus
Noun1.family - a social unit living togetherfamily - a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"household, menage, home, housebroken home - a family in which the parents have separated or divorcedconjugal family, nuclear family - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partnerextended family - a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relativesfoster family - the family of a fosterlingfoster home - a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)menage a trois - household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relationssocial unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"
2.family - primary social groupfamily - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"family unitkin group, kindred, kinship group, clan, kin, tribe - group of people related by blood or marriagemates, couple, match - a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago"man and wife, married couple, marriage - two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"child, kid - a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college"parent - a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardiansib, sibling - a person's brother or sister
3.family - a collection of things sharing a common attributefamily - a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"category, classgrammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical propertiessubstitution class, paradigm - the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a wholebrass family - (music) the family of brass instrumentsviolin family - (music) the family of bowed stringed instrumentswoodwind family - (music) the family of woodwind instrumentsstamp - a type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed"sex - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; "the war between the sexes"declension - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"conjugation - a class of verbs having the same inflectional formsdenomination - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations"histocompatibility complex - a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune responsesuperphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
4.family - people descended from a common ancestorfamily - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, family line, sept, folkpeople - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same familygens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
5.family - a person having kinship with another or othersfamily - a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"kin, kinspersonaffine - (anthropology) kin by marriagerelative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
6.family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"Bunyaviridae - a large family of arboviruses that affect a wide range of hosts (mainly vertebrates and arthropods)Filoviridae - a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)Togaviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropodsFlaviviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropodsArenaviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropodsRhabdoviridae - a family of arborviruses carried by arthropodsReoviridae - a family of arboviruses carried by arthropodsbacteria family - a family of bacteriaprotoctist family - any of the families of ProtoctistaEndamoebidae, family Endamoebidae - a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tractfish family - any of various families of fishchordate family - any family in the phylum Chordatabird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsamphibian family - any family of amphibiansreptile family - a family of reptilesarthropod family - any of the arthropodsmammal family - a family of mammalscoelenterate family - a family of coelenteratesctenophore family - a family of ctenophoresworm family - a family of wormsmollusk family - a family of mollusksfamily Panorpidae, Panorpidae - a family of insects of the order MecopteraBittacidae, family Bittacidae - a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecopteraechinoderm family - a family of echinodermsbiological science, biology - the science that studies living organismstaxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relationsorder - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more familiesform family - (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscuresubfamily - (biology) a taxonomic category below a familytribe - (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamilygenus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more speciesmoss family - a family of mossesliliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seeddicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfungus family - includes lichen familiesplant family - a family of plantsfern family - families of ferns and fern allies
7.family - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activitiesfamily - a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activitiescrime syndicate, syndicate, mobgangdom, gangland, organized crime - underworld organizationsCosa Nostra, Maffia, Mafia - a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia
8.family - an association of people who share common beliefs or activitiesfamily - an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"fellowshipassociation - a formal organization of people or groups of people; "he joined the Modern Language Association"koinonia - Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community

family

noun1. relations, people, children, issue, relatives, household, folk (informal), offspring, descendants, brood, kin, nuclear family, progeny, kindred, next of kin, kinsmen, ménage, kith and kin, your nearest and dearest, kinsfolk, your own flesh and blood His family are completely behind him, whatever he decides.2. children, kids (informal), offspring, little ones, munchkins (informal, chiefly U.S.), littlies (Austral. informal) Are you going to have a family?3. ancestors, forebears, parentage, forefathers, house, line, race, blood, birth, strain, tribe, sept, clan, descent, dynasty, pedigree, extraction, ancestry, lineage, genealogy, line of descent, stemma, stirps Her family came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century.4. species, group, class, system, order, kind, network, genre, classification, subdivision, subclass foods in the cabbage family, such as Brussels sproutsRelated words
adjective familial
Quotations
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them" [Desmond Tutu address at enthronement as archbishop of Cape Town]
"The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape" [Dodie Smith Dear Octopus]
"All happy families are alike, but every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way" [Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina]
Proverbs
"Blood is thicker than water"

family

noun1. A group of usually related people living together as a unit:house, household, ménage.2. A group of people sharing common ancestry:clan, house, kindred, lineage, stock, tribe.Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin.3. One's relatives collectively:kin, kindred, kinfolk.4. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation:ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock.adjectiveOf or relating to the family or household:domestic, familial, home, homely, household.
Translations
家庭家族科子女

family

(ˈfӕməli) plural ˈfamilies noun1. (singular or plural) a man, his wife and their children. These houses were built for families; The (members of the) Smith family are all very athletic; (also adjective) a family holiday. 家庭 家庭2. a group of people related to each other, including cousins, grandchildren etc. He comes from a wealthy family; (also adjective) the family home. 家族 家族3. the children of a man and his wife. When I get married I should like a large family. 子女 子女4. a group of plants, animals, languages etc that are connected in some way. In spite of its name, a koala bear is not a member of the bear family.family planning controlling or limiting the number of children that people have especially by using a means of contraception. a family planning clinic. 計劃生育 计划生育family tree (a plan showing) a person's ancestors and relations. 家譜 家系图

family

家庭zhCN
  • I'm here with my family → 我是与家人一同来这里的
  • I want to reserve a family room → 我想预订一间家庭房
  • I'd like to reserve a family room (US)
    I'd like to book a family room (UK) → 我想订一间家庭房

family


crown jewels

1. The precious jewels, and the regalia or which they are featured, of a monarch or sovereign, as worn or used on a state occasion. One of the greatest mysteries of 20th-century Ireland was the case of the Irish Crown Jewels, which were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907 and never recovered.2. slang A male's genitals, especially the testicles. When she heard he had an affair, she kicked him right in the crown jewels.See also: crown, jewel

family jewels

slang Male genitalia, especially the testicles. An allusion to the testes' role in producing offspring and thus maintaining the family line. When she heard he had an affair, she kicked him right in the family jewels.See also: family, jewel

family man

A man devoted to taking care of his wife and children. Paul goes home every night after work and never likes to spend time away from his wife and kids. He's a real family man.See also: family, man

the black sheep of the family

One who is unlike other family members, sometimes due to intentional rebelliousness, and often viewed unfavorably by them. Everyone likes me because I'm so quiet and obedient. The same cannot be said for my wild cousin Nathan, who is the black sheep of the family.See also: black, family, of, sheep

run in the/(one's) family

To be a hereditary trait or a characteristic frequently exhibited by members of a family. I wonder if she's pregnant with twins—they do run in our family, you know. Cassie's drawing will probably win the contest—artistic ability just runs in her family.See also: family, run

in a/the family way

euphemism Pregnant. Did you hear the good news? Kristin is in the family way!See also: family, way

one big happy family

A group of people who live or work together or in close proximity, with the characteristics of a family whose members have strong, loving relationships. Sometimes used ironically. I lived in a house during college with five other people. We shared every part our lives with one another, like one big happy family. Three departments that don't communicate properly and blame each other for their own mistakes—yeah, we're one big happy family.See also: big, family, happy, one

sell the family silver

To sell or part with a very valuable resource for a quick and immediate gain or advantage, rather than holding onto it for future use or to accrue even greater value. Unfortunately, the government sold the family silver during the economic crash, auctioning off some of the most valuable land in the country to private investors to help meet its debt obligations. To avoid bankruptcy, the company had to offload some of its most valuable intellectual property, but many investors worry they may have doomed themselves in the long run by selling the family silver.See also: family, sell, silver

run in the blood

To be innate, as of a skill or quality. All of my relatives are doctors—medical prowess just runs in the blood. That type of passion can't be taught—it has to run in the blood.See also: blood, run

start a family

To begin having children. I just think you need a more stable job if we're going to start a family. Why does everyone as when we'll start a family now that we're married? Not every married couple wants kids!See also: family, start

like one of the family

Said of a person or animal who is so beloved and accepted by a family that it seems as if they or it were an actual member. We were all terribly fond of Chris when Janet started dating him—he was like one of the family, which is why it was especially hard when they broke up. You can't treat your livestock like pets. The more they're like one of the family to you, the harder it will be to sell them.See also: family, like, of, one

the family that prays together stays together

Praying or engaging in other religious practices together as a group keeps a family unified (by helping it to avoid dysfunction, etc.). When I was growing up, my whole family always had to go to church together. My parents would say, "The family that prays together stays together."See also: family, pray, stay, that, together

How's the/your family?

A greeting inquiring about the well-being of one's family members. Hey, great to see you again! How's your family? A: "Hi Murray, how's the family?" B: "My sons are both in college now—can you believe it?"

(all) in the family

Within or among only the members of a family or other small, intimate group. Hey, keep that in the family, will ya? I don't want everyone to know I'm pregnant just yet!See also: family

(all) in the family

restricted to one's own family, as with private or embarrassing information. Don't tell anyone else. Please keep it all in the family. He only told his brother because he wanted it to remain in the family.See also: family

black sheep of the family

Fig. the worst member of the family. Mary is the black sheep of the family. She's always in trouble with the police. He keeps making a nuisance of himself. What do you expect from the black sheep of the family?See also: black, family, of, sheep

family that prays together stays together

Prov. Families who practice religion together will not break apart through divorce or estrangement. Mother believed that the family that prays together stays together and insisted that we all say prayers every night.See also: family, pray, stay, that, together

How's the family?

 and How's your family?an expression used on greeting to ask about the state of the person's immediate family. Bob: Hello, Fred. How are you? Fred: Fine, thanks. Bob: How's the family? Fred: Great! How's yours? Bob: Couldn't bebetter. "How's the family?" asked Bill, greeting his boss.

*in a family way

 and *in the family wayFig. pregnant. (*Typically: be ~; get someone ~.) I've heard that Mrs. Smith is in a family way. Our dog is in the family way.See also: family, way

like one of the family

as if someone (or a pet) were a member of one's family. We treat our dog like one of the family. We are very happy to have you stay with us, Bill. I hope you don't mind if we treat you like one of the family.See also: family, like, of, one

run in the family

[for a characteristic] to appear in many (or all) members of a family. My grandparents lived well into their nineties, and it runs in the family. My brothers and I have red hair. It runs in the family.See also: family, run

crown jewels

1. A prized possession or asset, as in The Iliad and Odyssey are the crown jewels of ancient literature, or The software products are the company's crown jewels. This usage transfers the value of royal jewels to some other object. [Late 1800s] 2. Also, family jewels. The male genitals, especially the testicles. For example, She gave the would-be mugger a hard kick in the family jewels. A slang euphemism, the term dates from the 1970s, and the variant from the early 1900s. See also: crown, jewel

in the family way

Pregnant, as in Mary's in the family way again. This euphemistic expression dates from the late 1700s and may be dying out. See also: family, way

run in the blood

Also, run in the family. Be characteristic of a family or passed on from one generation to the next, as in That happy-go-lucky trait runs in the blood, or Big ears run in the family. The first term dates from the early 1600s, the second from the late 1700s. See also: blood, run

sell the family silver

If you accuse someone of selling the family silver, you mean that they are getting rid of something valuable in order to get a quick advantage when it would be better to keep it for an advantage in the future. He accused the government of selling the family silver by allowing foreign investors to purchase the buildings. As Maureen Freely says, from bitter experience: `Writing about these things is like selling the family silver. You can only do it once.'See also: family, sell, silver

the black sheep

or

the black sheep of the family

COMMON If you describe someone as the black sheep or the black sheep of the family, you mean that the other people in their family disapprove of them and consider their behaviour to be bad. `I was always the black sheep,' he says. `Everyone else stayed in New Jersey but I was the one to go.' My uncle was the black sheep of the family and we were never encouraged to talk about him. Note: Black sheep are less valuable than white sheep since their wool cannot be dyed. In addition, people used to associate the colour black with evil. See also: black, sheep

the black sheep

a person considered to have brought discredit upon a family or other group; a bad character.See also: black, sheep

the (or your) family jewels

a man's genitals. informalSee also: family, jewel

in the family way

pregnant. informalSee also: family, way

sell the family silver

part with a valuable resource in order to gain an immediate advantage. In 1985 , the former British prime minister Harold Macmillan made a speech to the Tory Reform Group on the subject of privatization (the selling off of nationalized industries to private companies). He likened it to the selling of heirlooms by impoverished aristocratic families: ‘First of all the Georgian silver goes…’.See also: family, sell, silver

one ˌbig ˌhappy ˈfamily

(informal) a group of people who live or work together happily and without disagreements: We were always together. We were like one big happy family. ♢ (ironic) ‘Is your office a happy place to work in?’ ‘Oh sure, we’re just one big happy family. Everybody hates everybody else.’See also: big, family, happy, one

in the ˈfamily way

(old-fashioned, informal) pregnantSee also: family, way

run in the ˈfamily

(of a physical characteristic or moral quality) be something that many members of a family have: He was never going to live long because heart disease runs in both families.Good looks run in the family.See also: family, run

family jewels

n. the testicles. (Jocular and euphemistic. They are necessary to produce a family.) Hey, careful of the family jewels! See also: family, jewel

in a family way

and in the family way mod. pregnant. I hear that Britney is in a family way. See also: family, way

in the family way

verbSee in a family waySee also: family, way

in the family way

Pregnant.See also: family, way

start a family

To conceive or have a first child.See also: family, start

family jewels

A vulgar epithet for the male genitals. The term dates from the early 1900s and is used in such locutions as “The pitcher nearly hit the batter in his family jewels.”See also: family, jewel

run in the blood/family, to

To be characteristic of a family or peculiar to a nation, ethnic group, or other group. Richard Brinsley Sheridan used this expression in 1777 in The School for Scandal (3.3): “Learning that had run in the family like an heirloom!”See also: blood, run

family


family,

in taxonomy: see classificationclassification,
in biology, the systematic categorization of organisms into a coherent scheme. The original purpose of biological classification, or systematics, was to organize the vast number of known plants and animals into categories that could be named, remembered, and
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family,

a basic unit of social structure, the exact definition of which can vary greatly from time to time and from culture to culture. How a society defines family as a primary group, and the functions it asks families to perform, are by no means constant. There has been much recent discussion of the nuclear family, which consists only of parents and children, but the nuclear family is by no means universal. In the United States, the percentage of households consisting of a nuclear family declined from 45% in 1960 to 23.5% in 2000. In preindustrial societies, the ties of kinship bind the individual both to the family of orientation, into which one is born, and to the family of procreation, which one founds at marriage and which often includes one's spouse's relatives. The nuclear family also may be extended through the acquisition of more than one spouse (polygamy and polygyny), or through the common residence of two or more married couples and their children or of several generations connected in the male or female line. This is called the extended family; it is widespread in many parts of the world, by no means exclusively in pastoral and agricultural economies. The primary functions of the family are reproductive, economic, social, and educational; it is through kin—itself variously defined—that the child first absorbs the culture of his group.

Evolution of the Western Family

The patriarchal family, which prevailed among the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, is often associated with polygamy (see marriagemarriage,
socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family. In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a group).
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). In Rome, the paterfamilias was the only person recognized as an independent individual under the law. He possessed all religious rights as priest of the family ancestor cult, all economic rights as sole owner of the family property, and power of life and death over the members of the family. At his death, his name, property, and authority descended to his male heirs. The Roman system was transferred in many of its details into both the canon and secular law of Western Europe.

In the 19th cent., when the Western nations began to grant women equal rights with men with respect to the ownership of property (see husband and wifehusband and wife,
the legal aspects of the married state (for the sociological aspects, see marriage). The Marriage Contract

Marriage is a contractual relationship between a man and a woman that vests the parties with a new legal status.
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), the control of children (see parent and childparent and child,
legal relationship, created by biological (birth) relationship or by adoption, that confers certain rights and duties on parent and child; in some states the courts have given the nonbiological, nonadoptive partner of a parent standing as a parent in a legal
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), divorce, and the like, basic changes took place in the structure of the family, and the rights and protections associated with it. The state has also intervened to modify the authority of parents over their children. At the same time, education has shifted increasingly from the household to the school. The effect has been to loosen traditional family ties. In Western Europe, where legislation provides equal financial benefits and legal standing to all children, families have increasingly come to consist of one or two unwed parents and children, especially in Scandinavia and other parts of N Europe. The trend toward unwed parents has also occurred in the United States, where about 40% of children in the early 21st cent. were born to unwed mothers.

Another factor affecting the modern Euro-American family was the Industrial Revolution, which removed from the home to the factory many economic tasks, such as baking, spinning, and weaving. Economic and social conditions have discouraged the presence of the husband and father in the home; in industrial communities the wife and mother also is often employed outside the home, leaving the children to be cared for by others. Sociologists and psychologists find in these changed relations of the members of the family to each other and of the family to the community at large the source of many problems such as divorcedivorce,
partial or total dissolution of a marriage by the judgment of a court. Partial dissolution is a divorce "from bed and board," a decree of judicial separation, leaving the parties officially married while forbidding cohabitation.
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, mental illness, and juvenile delinquency.

Bibliography

See W. J. Goode, The Family (1964); R. H. Klemer, Marriage and Family Relationships (1970); P. Laslett, Household and Family in Past Time (1972); T. Hareven, Transitions: The Family and the Life Course in Historical Perspective (1978); J. Elshtain, The Family in Political Thought (1982).

family

A group of people, related by KINSHIP or similar close ties, in which the adults assume responsibility for the care and upbringing of their natural or adopted children.

Historically and comparatively, there have been wide variations in the family form. In order to analyse these differing family arrangements, sociologists have used the key notions of the EXTENDED FAMILY and the nuclear family. The extended family refers to a group of people, related by kinship, where more than two GENERATIONS of relatives live together (or in very close proximity),usually forming a single HOUSEHOLD. The nuclear family comprises merely parents (or parent) and their dependent child(ren). Sociologists have argued that the nuclear family form has developed as a concomitant of industrialization (although there have been suggestions recently that the prior existence of individualistic family structures may have contributed to the rise of industrialism). With the geographical and social mobility normally associated with industrial development, sociologists have argued that the nuclear family has become socially and geographically isolated from wider kin networks, leading to what is known as the privatized nuclear family.

There remain wide variations in the forms which extended and nuclear families take, depending on social and cultural NORMS. For example, extended families vary according to kin structures, including polygamous family forms. Similarly, the number of children to be found in nuclear families differs widely. For example, in the UK, the trend has been towards having fewer children; and in China couples are prohibited from having more than one child.

As well as differences between societies, each family goes through a life cycle, and most individuals undergo several changes in family role in the course of their own lifetimes (see FAMILY OF ORIGIN OR ORIENTATION and FAMILY OF PROCREATION).

Recent changes in patterns of family life in Britain and in many Western societies, include:

  1. the increasing importance placed on personal fulfilment, overriding previously more dominant economic considerations;
  2. the increasing percentage of stable reproductive and cohabiting relationships outside conventional marriage patterns;
  3. the increasing incidence of DIVORCE and remarriage;
  4. an increase in the number of single-parent families, especially fatherless families.

A further change in the nuclear family, which may occur as a consequence of an ageing population, is an increase in the number of nuclear families which are caring for dependent parents (see COMMUNITY CARE). See also SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY, SOCIALIZATION, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE.

Family

 

a taxonomic category in botany and zoology. A family unites closely related genera of common origin. For example, among the genera making up the beech family, Fagaceae, are Fagus (beech), Quercus (oak), and Castanea (chestnut). The genera making up the squirrel family, Sciuridae, include Sciurus (tree squirrels), Marmota (marmots), Tamias (chipmunks), Citellus (susliks, or ground squirrels), and Spermophilopsis (long-clawed ground squirrels).

Some families contain a large number of genera. For example, the Compositae (composite family) include about 1,000 genera, the Leguminosae (pea family) and Rubiaceae (madder family) each have about 500 genera, and the Cricetidae (hamster family) and Bovidae (bovid family) each contain 50 to 100 genera. Some families have only a few genera. Still others include only a single genus, for example, the Punicaceae (pomegranate family), Ornithorhynchidae (duckbill family), Castoridae (beaver family), and Eschrichtiidae (gray whale family).

Large families are sometimes divided into subfamilies. Closely related families are united into orders and, in some cases, into such intermediate groups as superfamilies and suborders.


Family

 

a small group related through marriage or blood kinship, the members of which are bound together by a common life, mutual moral responsibility, and mutual aid. In marriage and the family, relations determined by the differences between the sexes and by sexual necessity are manifested in moral and psychological relationships.

Because it is a social phenomenon, the family changes with the development of the economic basis of society. At the same time, the forms of the family develop relatively independently.

F. Engels applied the concept of the family to primitive communal society to designate the circle of people among whom sexual relations were permitted. In this sense, one may refer to three types of families: consanguine, group, and pairing. In the consanguine family, marriage relationships were forbidden between relatives of different generations. The group family, of which there were endogamous and exogamous varieties, developed as a result of the taboo on sexual ties between parents and children and between brothers and sisters. The pairing family was based on marital relations between one man and one woman. However, these relations were unstable and were easily dissolved. There may also have been a dislocated pairing family, in which each spouse lived in his original clan group.

Throughout these stages of the development of the family the basic form of the labor and everyday community was the clan, which was matriarchal or patriarchal in organization, depending on concrete historical circumstances and especially on the character of the division of labor between men and women.

The family emerged as a stable social association in the late Neolithic period, with the disintegration of the clan structure and the appearance of private property, a surplus product, and classes.

Engels wrote: “The more the traditional sexual relations lost their naïve, primitive character … the more degrading and oppressive must they have appeared to the women, and the more fervently must they have longed for the right to chastity, to temporary or permanent marriage with one man only” (in K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 21, p. 56). However, the chief reason for the emergence of monogamy was the need for the preservation, augmentation, and inheritance of private property. The first historical form of the monogamous family, the patriarchal family, was made possible by the enslavement of women, which resulted from the decline in their economic role and the concentration of wealth in the hands of male proprietors. In the patriarchal family, monogamy was strictly enforced only for women. For men, the rise of slavery and other forms of dependence and domination opened new opportunities for polygamy (concubinage of female slaves, hetaerism, and prostitution). In the Orient, polygamy was elevated into a legal form of marriage. Even the European patriarchal family was made up of relatives (the descendants of one man, with their wives and children) and household slaves, including concubines. (The Latin word familia means all the slaves belonging to one person.) For this reason, Engels defined the European patriarchal family as an “intermediate form” between polygamy and monogamy. The patriarchal family, which usually consisted of many members, was a production association. In its classic form it existed during the first stages of the slaveholding formation, but various modifications survived among many peoples under feudalism. With the growth of slaveholding production, the patriarchal family gradually became separate from the household economy. At the same time, the development of free trade and the colonatus system promoted the formation of the strictly monogamous family among certain groups in the population. The elimination of polygamy was accompanied by an increase in prostitution and adultery.

With the transition to feudalism, “monogamy, which developed out of the mingling of races on the ruins of the Roman world, clothed the domination of the men in milder forms and permitted women to occupy, at least with regard to externals, a far freer and more respected position than classical antiquity had ever known” (Engels, ibid., p. 72). The spread of the world religions, especially Christianity, strengthened the ideological ties binding the family. Male domination was sanctified, and submissiveness and self-sacrifice were elevated into woman’s highest virtues. A “touchingly sentimental cloak” was hung on the “economic frame” of marriage. Freed from economic cares, the ruling class reached a stage of cultural and moral development that made possible the emergence of “chivalrous love” and a “chivalrous attitude toward women.” However, to the extent that private property remained the foundation of marital and familial relations, chivalrous values emerged not inside but outside marriage, as its antipode. In addition to the contradiction in the family between “man the enslaver and the enslaved woman,” there was an equally sharp conflict between the economic goals of proprietary monogamy and the selectivity of sexual attraction, which was most strongly manifested in love.

At least in the cities, capitalist industrialization destroyed the characteristically feudal link between family life and production. Of all their economic functions, many families retained only one—the structuring of everyday life. In families associated with capitalist private property, the economic function was reduced to the accumulation of capital. Thus, the necessity for large, “inseparable” families and the patriarchal structure faded under capitalism. The majority of families consisted only of spouses and their children (the nuclear family), and family relations became less hierarchical and authoritarian. Women gained broad access to jobs in industrial enterprises and the service sphere. This guaranteed them a far greater degree of economic self-sufficiency and independence from men than had been possible under feudalism. Nonetheless, in the bourgeois states, women suffered from wage discrimination. Under the influence of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat, many countries granted women civil rights, including the right of divorce.

Among the classes and social groups not directly linked with private property, marriage has changed steadily from an economic institution into a moral and legal union of a man and a woman, based on love and personal choice. In the household economy and childrearing, the duties of husband and wife have been redistributed to some extent. However, the most important part of the man’s contribution is associated with the peripheral forms of the family’s economic activity. Whether or not they work in production, women bear the main burden of housework. The development of services, leisure, and children’s institutions has made it possible for the family to free itself, either completely or partially, of a number of duties. This trend is known as the reduction of the family’s functions. Increasingly, the family has focused on its internal affairs, and intrafamilial relations have assumed a greater role in ensuring family stability and permanence. The decline in the influence of public opinion on the family, owing to urbanization, as well as the weakening of the economic, legal, and religious ties that once bound the family together, has sharply increased the “stress” on moral ties.

In capitalist society there are two contradictory tendencies toward change in the family, one toward renewal or “reconstruction” based on industrial and cultural progress, and the other toward disorganization. The tendency toward renewal is most characteristic of working families. The tendency toward disorganization is typical of the parasitic strata. Under capitalism, private property relations contribute to the prevalence of marriages for economic advantage and gain. The economic, political, and moral contradictions of capitalism also promote the alienation of the family from society. The family’s natural concentration on internal problems turns into isolation. At the same time, the possibilities for intrafamilial clashes increase, and the chances of settling them without damaging family unity decrease. All of these tendencies result in instability and an increase in divorce. In the USA, one in 16 marriages ended in divorce in 1890; in 1900, one in 13; in 1911, one in 11; in 1920, one in six; in 1940, one in five; and in the 1970’s, one in 3.5–4. The number of unofficial divorces, or “desertions” (primarily by men), is also rising.

As a result of socialist transformations, family relations are freed from the social forces of the old society, including proprietary law, the influence of the church, and class, estate, and national prejudices. All forms of discrimination against women are eliminated. At the same time, there is a systematic expansion in the network of social institutions designed to aid the family in childrearing and in managing the household. The rising prosperity and cultural level of the population lead to the formation of the socialist family.

Marxism-Leninism refutes the bourgeois and anarchist assertions that the socialization of the means of production in socialist and communist society is necessarily accompanied by the “socialization” of women and children and the destruction of the family. In reality, the communist ideal of relations between the sexes is “civil marriage with love” (V. I. Lenin, Soch., 5th ed., vol. 49, p. 56).

The socialist family is distinguished from the proprietary family by the motives underlying marriage and by the character of intrafamilial relations. In the USSR the overwhelming majority of marriages are entered as a result not of economic calculations or parental coercion but of the personal choice of the prospective spouses. Consequently, in socialist society more than in any other society, intrafamilial organization is characterized by greater equality between spouses and by greater cohesiveness of the family group. There is a growing tendency toward the division of large families and the establishment of separate residences for the older and younger generations. Under socialism, the family’s primary social function is increasingly the fulfillment of the needs of man and woman in matrimony, fatherhood, motherhood, and childrearing. The familial function of accumulating private property died out in the course of socialist transformations, and the domestic function is carried out not as the goal but as the condition of family life. The character of the family’s relations with society and the state has also changed considerably, and the family is increasingly involved in public activity. But even under the conditions of socialism, some families are not free from the vestiges of feudalism, religion, and philistinism, and this accounts for the still comparatively high percentage of divorce in socialist society. In the USSR in 1960 there were 1.3 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants: in 1965, 1.6; in 1970,2.6; and in 1973,2.8.

In developed socialist society the social role of the family increases as the role of the moral factor increases in public life. Familial relations are enriched. Under socialism, moral and legal norms are directed at strengthening the family and consolidating the principles of the socialist community. In the society of the future, the household functions of the family will decline significantly. The registration of marriage will lose its legal character, becoming a strictly moral, aesthetic act. However, it is reasonable to predict that there will be further expansion in the family’s role in ensuring personal happiness and the upbringing of the younger generation.

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A. G. KHARCHEV

What does it mean when you dream about a family?

Because each person’s family experiences are so involved and vary so much from individual to individual it is difficult to say anything definitive about families in dreams. If the dream does not seem connected to our actual family, then it could relate to our inner “family,” the different aspects of our own psyche.

family

[′fam·lē] (chemistry) A group of elements whose chemical properties, such as valence, solubility of salts, and behavior toward reagents, are similar. (systematics) A taxonomic category based on the grouping of related genera.

family

In urban planning, one or more persons occupying a single living unit.

family

1. a group of persons related by blood; a group descended from a common ancestor 2. Biology any of the taxonomic groups into which an order is divided and which contains one or more genera. Felidae (cat family) and Canidae (dog family) are two families of the order Carnivora 3. Ecology a group of organisms of the same species living together in a community 4. Chiefly US an independent local group of the Mafia 5. Maths a group of curves or surfaces whose equations differ from a given equation only in the values assigned to one or more constants in each curve 6. Physics the isotopes, collectively, that comprise a radioactive series

family


family

 [fam´ĭ-le] 1. a group of people related by blood or marriage or a strong common bond, such as those descended from a common ancestor, or a husband, wife, and their children.2. a taxonomic category below an order and above a genus.blended family a family unit composed of a married couple and their offspring including some from previous marriages.dysfunctional family one in which adult caregivers are unable to consistently fulfill their family responsibilities.extended family a nuclear family and their close relatives, such as the children's grandparents, aunts, and uncles.nuclear family a family consisting of a two-generation relationship of parents and children, living together and more or less isolated from their extended family.nuclear dyad family a husband and wife with no children.family of origin the family in which a person grew up.family processes the psychosocial, physiological, and spiritual functions and relationships within the family unit; for nursing diagnoses, see under process.single-parent family a lone parent and offspring living together as a family unit.skewed family a family in which one spouse is severely dysfunctional and the other spouse assumes an acquiescent, peacemaking stance to maintain equilibrium.family (omaha) in the omaha system, a problem modifier defined as a social unit or related group of individuals who live together and who experience a health-related problem.

fam·i·ly

(fam'ĭ-lē), 1. A group of two or more people united by blood, adoptive, or marital ties, or the common law equivalent. 2. In biologic classification, a taxonomic grouping at the level intermediate between the order and the tribe or genus. 3. A group of substances closely related structurally. 4. A group of proteins with characteristic sequence, pharmacologic, and/or signaling profiles. [L. familia]

family

(făm′ə-lē, făm′lē)n. pl. fami·lies 1. a. A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.b. The children of one of these groups: She raised a large family.c. A group of persons related by descent or marriage: My whole family, including my cousins, gets together once a year. See Usage Note at collective noun.2. People in the same line of descent; lineage: comes from an old Virginia family.3. Obsolete All the members of a household living under one roof.4. A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.5. a. A group of like things; a class: the family of brass instruments.b. A group of individuals derived from a common stock: the family of human beings.6. Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.7. Linguistics A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.8. Mathematics A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.9. Chemistry a. A group of elements with similar chemical properties.b. A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.10. Physics Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.adj.1. Of or having to do with a family: family problems.2. Being suitable for a family: family movies.
Scispeak A group of related organisms, proteins, or chemicals
Taxonomy A category in the biological nomenclature of livings things which falls between an order and above a genus
Vox populi A unit of related individuals

family

1. A group of related organisms, proteins, or chemicals. See Superfamily.2. A unit of related individuals. See Cancer family, Dysfunctional family, Extended family, Hernandez family, Immediate family, Jukes family, Multiproblem family, Nerve growth factor family, Nuclear family, Single-parent family Genetics A category in the biological nomenclature of livings things which falls between an order and above a genus.

fam·i·ly

(fam'i-lē) 1. A group of two or more people linked by blood, adoptive, or marital ties, or the common-law equivalent. 2. In biologic classification, a taxonomic grouping at the level intermediate between the order and the tribe or genus. 3. A group of substances closely related structurally. 4. A group of proteins with characteristic sequence, pharmacologic, and/or signaling profiles. [L. familia]

family

the TAXON between ORDER and GENUS that normally contains more than one genus. Family names of animals usually end in -idae, and of plants in -ceae, for example, Ursidae, the bear family; Rosaceae, the rose family.

fam·i·ly

(fam'i-lē) 1. Group of two or more people united by blood, adoptive, or marital ties, or the common law equivalent. 2. In biologic classification, taxonomic grouping at level intermediate between order and tribe or genus. 3. Substances closely related structurally. [L. familia]

Patient discussion about family

Q. United happy family but now... We are a united happy family with married brothers, sisters and their families. Our father died when he was suffering from Bipolar1. Now one of my sisters is diagnosed as Bipolar II. We are afraid that our family happiness will vanish soon. Please let me know about the difference between bipolar1 and bipolar11 and what the treatments available are?A. Hey pete,
Any family that is dealing with Bipolar disorder will have some difficult and trying times. you obviously love your sister so just be patient and supportive to her. Encourage her to take medications as perscribed and encourage her to get theropy, I think these steps are invaluable to a person with bipolar. Bipolar ii is less severe than bipolar 1. Bipolar ii is usually free of the hillucinations etc... However is still very serious and needs to be treated appropriately.
I hope your family stays strong through all your struggles, with the right support and theropy/meds and the love of her family your sister should do well in learning to manage the illness...

Q. Most of my family members are suffering from some disorder. Most of my family members are suffering from some disorder. I doubt it as bipolar. Is bipolar disorder a family problem?

Q. I AM WONDERING ABOUT GETTING HEALTH INSURANCE IS IT EXPENSIVE FOR A FAMILY? A. Yes, it'll you cost you money, and not a negligible sum, but that's not necessarily means it'll be expensive - the alternative may eventually be much more expensive. We can never know what will happen tomorrow- if something will happen to you or your family (e.g. car accident, cancer or even relatively simple thing as appendicitis), the cost of the unavoidable medical treatment in this case will be much higher than the insurance premium.
Here (http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/insuranceqa/) you can find an official governmental guide to choosing health insurance.

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family


family

n. 1) husband, wife and children. 2) all blood relations. 3) all who live in the same household including servants and relatives, with some person or persons directing this economic and social unit.

family


family

Traditionally, people who are related by blood or marriage. The term can mean many different things depending on the circumstances. Most statutes have a section devoted to “definitions” that will tell you the intended definition of words used in the law. For example, the concept of what constitutes a family may be important in zoning cases for single-family housing or apartment restrictions against non-family members living in the apartment with the tenant.

FAMILY


AcronymDefinition
FAMILYForget About Money, I Love You
FAMILYFather And Mother, I Love You
FAMILYForever, Always, Mine, I Love You
FAMILYForget About Me, I Love You
FAMILYFamily Always Means I Love You

family


  • all
  • noun
  • adj

Synonyms for family

noun relations

Synonyms

  • relations
  • people
  • children
  • issue
  • relatives
  • household
  • folk
  • offspring
  • descendants
  • brood
  • kin
  • nuclear family
  • progeny
  • kindred
  • next of kin
  • kinsmen
  • ménage
  • kith and kin
  • your nearest and dearest
  • kinsfolk
  • your own flesh and blood

noun children

Synonyms

  • children
  • kids
  • offspring
  • little ones
  • munchkins
  • littlies

noun ancestors

Synonyms

  • ancestors
  • forebears
  • parentage
  • forefathers
  • house
  • line
  • race
  • blood
  • birth
  • strain
  • tribe
  • sept
  • clan
  • descent
  • dynasty
  • pedigree
  • extraction
  • ancestry
  • lineage
  • genealogy
  • line of descent
  • stemma
  • stirps

noun species

Synonyms

  • species
  • group
  • class
  • system
  • order
  • kind
  • network
  • genre
  • classification
  • subdivision
  • subclass

Synonyms for family

noun a group of usually related people living together as a unit

Synonyms

  • house
  • household
  • ménage

noun a group of people sharing common ancestry

Synonyms

  • clan
  • house
  • kindred
  • lineage
  • stock
  • tribe

noun one's relatives collectively

Synonyms

  • kin
  • kindred
  • kinfolk

noun one's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation

Synonyms

  • ancestry
  • birth
  • blood
  • bloodline
  • descent
  • extraction
  • genealogy
  • line
  • lineage
  • origin
  • parentage
  • pedigree
  • seed
  • stock

adj of or relating to the family or household

Synonyms

  • domestic
  • familial
  • home
  • homely
  • household

Synonyms for family

noun a social unit living together

Synonyms

  • household
  • menage
  • home
  • house

Related Words

  • broken home
  • conjugal family
  • nuclear family
  • extended family
  • foster family
  • foster home
  • menage a trois
  • social unit
  • unit

noun primary social group

Synonyms

  • family unit

Related Words

  • kin group
  • kindred
  • kinship group
  • clan
  • kin
  • tribe
  • mates
  • couple
  • match
  • man and wife
  • married couple
  • marriage
  • child
  • kid
  • parent
  • sib
  • sibling

noun a collection of things sharing a common attribute

Synonyms

  • category
  • class

Related Words

  • grammatical category
  • syntactic category
  • substitution class
  • paradigm
  • aggregation
  • collection
  • accumulation
  • assemblage
  • brass family
  • violin family
  • woodwind family
  • stamp
  • sex
  • declension
  • conjugation
  • denomination
  • histocompatibility complex
  • superphylum

noun people descended from a common ancestor

Synonyms

  • kinfolk
  • kinsfolk
  • phratry
  • family line
  • sept
  • folk

Related Words

  • people
  • homefolk
  • house
  • dynasty
  • gens
  • name
  • blood line
  • bloodline
  • ancestry
  • lineage
  • pedigree
  • stemma
  • line of descent
  • parentage
  • blood
  • origin
  • descent
  • stock
  • line

noun a person having kinship with another or others

Synonyms

  • kin
  • kinsperson

Related Words

  • affine
  • relative
  • relation

noun (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

Related Words

  • Bunyaviridae
  • Filoviridae
  • Togaviridae
  • Flaviviridae
  • Arenaviridae
  • Rhabdoviridae
  • Reoviridae
  • bacteria family
  • protoctist family
  • Endamoebidae
  • family Endamoebidae
  • fish family
  • chordate family
  • bird family
  • amphibian family
  • reptile family
  • arthropod family
  • mammal family
  • coelenterate family
  • ctenophore family
  • worm family
  • mollusk family
  • family Panorpidae
  • Panorpidae
  • Bittacidae
  • family Bittacidae
  • echinoderm family
  • biological science
  • biology
  • taxon
  • taxonomic category
  • taxonomic group
  • order
  • form family
  • subfamily
  • tribe
  • genus
  • moss family
  • liliopsid family
  • monocot family
  • dicot family
  • magnoliopsid family
  • fungus family
  • plant family
  • fern family

noun a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Synonyms

  • crime syndicate
  • syndicate
  • mob

Related Words

  • gangdom
  • gangland
  • organized crime
  • Cosa Nostra
  • Maffia
  • Mafia

noun an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

Synonyms

  • fellowship

Related Words

  • association
  • koinonia
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