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Word: Family
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (in family (sense 2 of the noun); also denoting the servants of a household or the retinue of a nobleman): from Latin familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’
ˈfam(ɪ)li
a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit
Short Definition:group of parents and their children
Examples:- the family lived in a large house with a lot of land
- the family home
all the descendants of a common ancestor
Short Definition:all descendants of common ancestor
Examples:- the house has been owned by the same family for 300 years
a group of related things
Short Definition:group of related things
Examples:- all manuscripts that share this reading constitute a family
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