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family

noun
  1. A group of usually related people living together as a unit: house, household, ménage. See group
  2. A group of people sharing common ancestry: clan, house, kindred, lineage, stock, tribe. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See kin
  3. One's relatives collectively: kin, kindred, kinfolk. See kin
  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. See kin, precede
adjective
Of or relating to the family or household: domestic, familial, home, homely, household. See kin, group

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