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Learn to pronounce fam·i·ly

/ˈfam(ə)lē/
noun
  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"
    synonyms: household, ménage, nuclear family, brood
  2. all the descendants of a common ancestor.
    "the house has been owned by the same family for 300 years"
    synonyms: ancestry, parentage, birth, pedigree, genealogy, 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, filiation, stirps
  3. a group of related things.
    "all manuscripts that share this reading constitute a family"

adjective
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"a family newspaper"

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