How to pronounce “family”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
• An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
• A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
• (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
• A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
• (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
• Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
• [Adjective]
• Suitable for children and adults.
• (gay slang) Homosexual.

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