Family definition

Family as a noun

1. a social unit living together

   "he moved his family to Virginia"

   Same sense: home, house, household, menage

2. primary social group; parents and children

   "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

   Same sense: family unit

3. a collection of things sharing a common attribute

   Same sense: class, category

4. people descended from a common ancestor

   "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

   Same sense: family line, sept, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry

5. a person having kinship with another or others

   "he's family"

   Same sense: kin, kinsperson

6. (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

   "sharks belong to the fish family"

7. a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Same sense: mob, syndicate, crime syndicate

8. an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

   "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"

   Same sense: fellowship

Synonyms and antonyms

• home definition
• house definition
• household
• menage
• family unit
• class definition
• category
• family line
• sept
• folk
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• phratry
• kin
• kinsperson
• mob
• syndicate
• crime syndicate
• fellowship

All synonyms of family, sense by sense

How to say family

Family has 3 syllables and rhymes with multifamily. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with family

• multifamily
• subfamily

FAMILY in word games

Scrabble

14

Words With Friends

15

Anagrams

0

Is FAMILY a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check FAMILY in the word checker, or unscramble FAMILY to see the shorter words in its letters.