Synonym: group, household, kin. Similar words: familiar, be familiar with, happily, heavily, readily, amid, jauntily, steadily. Meaning: ['fæməlɪ] 
n. 1. a social unit living together 2. primary social group; parents and children 3. people descended from a common ancestor 4. a collection of things sharing a common attribute 5. an association of people who share common beliefs or activities 6. (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera 7. a person having kinship with another or others 8. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.
n. 1. a social unit living together 2. primary social group; parents and children 3. people descended from a common ancestor 4. a collection of things sharing a common attribute 5. an association of people who share common beliefs or activities 6. (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera 7. a person having kinship with another or others 8. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. 
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1 The family is one of nature's masterpieses. 
2 Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
3 The family you came from isn't as important as the family you are going to have.
4 He wants to spend more time with his family.
5 She's struggling to bring up a family alone.
6 She wrote an essay on My Family.
7 She comes from a very artistic family.
8 There's plenty of fun for all the family.
9 He grew up in a wealthy family.
10 The cello is a member of the violin family.
11 I've got no family besides my parents.
12 The whole family gathered together at Ray's home.
13 I received the hospitality of the family.
14 I sympathize deeply with his family.
15 Mr. Jay wears the pants in that family.
16 He is the eighth child in the family.
17 I dislike being away from my family.
18 She wants to start a family.
19 He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
20 The family had been beggared by the war.
21 Best wishes for you and your family.
22 The divorce was a disgrace to the royal family.
23 The entire family was demeaned by his behaviour.
24 These old photographs should go in the family archives.
25 Do you notice any family likeness between them?
26 He hated to be away from his family.
27 His family were horrified by the change.
28 You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
29 The brotherly spirit of science, which unites into one family all its votaries of whatever grade,[www.Sentencedict.com]and however widely dispersed throughout the different quarters of the globe.
30 All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.