family

family: fam·i·ly /'fam-lē, 'fa-mə-/ n pl -lies

1: a group of individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption

2: a group of usu. related individuals who live together under common household authority and esp. who have reciprocal duties to each other

◇ The interpretation of the word family in a law context depends upon the area of the law concerned (as contract or zoning law), the purpose of the document (as a statute or contract) in which it is used, and the facts of the case. Often for zoning purposes, the occupants of a group home are considered a family if the organization is like that of a family or if the home is going to be a permanent rather than a transitional residence for the occupants.

fa·mil·ial /fə-'mil-yəl/ adj

family: I (common ancestry) noun ancestry, antecedents, birth, blood connection, clan, common extraction, common forebears, common lineage, common parentage, consanguinity, descent, dynasty, ethnic group, ethnicity, extraction, filiation, folk, genealogy, house, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsmen, line, line of ancestors, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, people, same line of descent, same strain, sept, stirps, stock, strain, tribe II (household) noun brood, domestic circle, domestic establishment, familia, family unit, home circle, issue, offspring, progeny associated concepts: adoption, curtesy, dependent, domestic relation, dower, Family Court, family law, family purpose doctrine, head of household, heirs, next of kin, surviving spouse III index affiliation (bloodline), affinity (family ties), ancestry, bloodline, derivation, descendant, domestic (household), house, household (domestic), household, issue (progeny), kindred, kinship, lineage, next of kin, offspring, origin (ancestry), parentage, paternal, posterity, progeny, race, relative, succession

family: n.
A group of people related to one another by blood and marriage, often sharing a common ancestor; the unit consisting of parents and children; for insurance purposes, the people who live with and are dependent on an insured person.

family: A group of people related by consanguinity or affinity.

Category: Divorce & Family Law

family: n. A group of individuals who share ties of blood, marriage, or adoption; a group residing together and consisting of parents, children, and other relatives by blood or marriage; a group of individuals residing together who have consented to an arrangement similar to ties of blood or marriage.

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.

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Synonyms:

Household, parents and children / Lineage, race, tribe, clan, kindred, house, line of ancestors / Subdivision of an order, group of genera

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Family — • In the classical Roman period the familia rarely included the parents or the children. Its English derivative was frequently used in former times to describe all the persons of the domestic circle, parents, children, and servants. Present usage … Catholic encyclopedia
Family 13 — Family 13, also known Ferrar Group ( f 13, von Soden calls the group Ii), is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 11th to the 15th century, which display a distinctive pattern of variant readings especially in placing the … Wikipedia
Family — Fam i*ly, n.; pl. {Families}. [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf. faamat he dwells, Skr. dh[=a]man house, fr. dh[=a]to set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. {Do}, v. t., {Doom}, {Fact}, {Feat}.] 1. The collective body… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Family — Жанры прогрессив рок блюз рок психоделический рок хард рок Годы 1967 1973 … Википедия
Family — (engl. für „Familie“) war eine experimentierfreudige und schwer zu kategorisierende britische Rock Band um den Sänger Roger Chapman. Mit ihrer ungewöhnlichen Mischung aus wilder Bühnenpräsenz und musikalischer Feinsinnigkeit erwarb sich die Band… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Family 5 — Family Five (auch Family *5) wurde als deutschsprachige Band von Xao Seffcheque (Die Post, Die Pest, Der Rest, O.R.A.V.) und Peter Hein (Charley’s Girls, Mittagspause, Fehlfarben) 1981 in Düsseldorf als „Soul Punk“ Gruppe gegründet. Ursprünglich… … Deutsch Wikipedia
family — [fam′ə lē, fam′lē] n. pl. families [ME familie < L familia, household establishment, akin to famulus, servant < ? IE * dhe mo , house (< base * dhē : see DO1) > Sans dhāman, household] 1. Obs. all the people living in the same house;… … English World dictionary
Family 1 — is a group of the Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 12th to the 15th century. The group takes its name from the minuscule codex 1, now in Basel. Family 1 is also kown as the Lake Group , symbolized as f 1. Hermann von Soden calls … Wikipedia
family — (n.) c.1400, servants of a household, from L. familia family servants, domestics; also members of a household, including relatives and servants, from famulus servant, of unknown origin. Ancestral sense is from early 15c.; household sense recorded … Etymology dictionary
Family *5 — Family Five (auch Family *5) wurde als deutschsprachige Band von Xao Seffcheque (Die Post, Die Pest, Der Rest, O.R.A.V.) und Peter Hein (Charley’s Girls, Mittagspause, Fehlfarben) 1981 in Düsseldorf als „Soul Punk“ Gruppe gegründet. Ursprünglich… … Deutsch Wikipedia

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