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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   family

   • IPA[ˈfam(ə)lē]

   美式

   • n.
     a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit；a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage
   • adj.
     designed to be suitable for children as well as adults

   • noun: family, plural noun: families

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit the family lived in a large house with a lot of land the family home 同義詞 household, ménage, nuclear family, informalbrood
   • ▪ a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage friends and family can provide support I could not turn him away, for he was family 同義詞 relatives, relations, blood relations, family members, kin, ... 更多next of kin, kinsfolk, kinsmen, kinswomen, kindred, one's (own) flesh and blood, connections, extended family, clan, tribe, informalfam, folks, nearest and dearest, datedpeople
   • ▪ the children of a person or couple she has the sole responsibility for a large family 同義詞 children, little ones, youngsters, offspring, progeny, ... 更多descendants, scions, heirs, brood, informalkids, kiddies, kiddiewinks, tots, sprogs, quiverful, issue
   • ▪ informal a group of people united in criminal activity.
   • 2. all the descendants of a common ancestor the house has been owned by the same family for 300 years 同義詞 ancestry, parentage, birth, pedigree, genealogy, ... 更多background, family tree, descent, lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood, extraction, derivation, race, strain, stock, breed, dynasty, house, forebears, forefathers, antecedents, progenitors, roots, origins, rarefiliation, stirps
   • ▪ a race or group of peoples from a common stock.
   • 3. a group of related things all manuscripts that share this reading constitute a family
   • ▪ a principal taxonomic category that ranks above genus and below order, usually ending in -idae (in zoology) or -aceae (in botany) the cabbage family 同義詞 taxonomic group, group, order, class, subclass, ... 更多genus, species, stock, strain, line, technicaltaxon, phylum
   • ▪ all the languages ultimately derived from a particular early language, regarded as a group the Austronesian language family
   • ▪ a group of curves or surfaces obtained by varying the value of a constant in the equation generating them.

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. designed to be suitable for children as well as adults a family newspaper

   片語

   • in the family way
   • sell the family silver