Synonyms for family
Another word for family is home, house or household. Below are 19 synonyms and 30 related words across 8 senses.
Also searched as: families.
1. noun: a social unit living together
- home synonyms
- house synonyms
- household
- menage
2. noun: primary social group; parents and children
- family unit
3. noun: a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- class synonyms
- category
4. noun: people descended from a common ancestor
- family line synonyms
- sept synonyms
- folk synonyms
- kinfolk
- kinsfolk
- phratry
5. noun: a person having kinship with another or others
- kin synonyms
- kinsperson
6. noun: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
7. noun: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- mob synonyms
- syndicate synonyms
- crime syndicate
8. noun: an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- fellowship synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- unit synonyms
- broken home
- social unit
- nuclear family
- extended family
- foster home
- foster family
- conjugal family
- menage a trois
- couple synonyms
- match synonyms
- man and wife
- marriage synonyms
- married couple
- tribe synonyms
- mates
- clan synonyms
- kin group
- kindred synonyms
- kinship group
- sex
- collection synonyms
- weight class
- stamp synonyms
- brass family
- violin family
- paradigm synonyms
- accumulation synonyms
- substitution class
- grammatical category
Family in word games
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble FAMILY
- Is FAMILY a word?
- Words starting with F
Questions people ask
What is another word for family?
You can say home, house, household, menage or family unit instead of family. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a social unit living together".
What is the opposite of family?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for family; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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