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family
- See Wiktionary:Families for a guide to language families within Wiktionary
English
Etymology
From Early Modern English familie (not in Middle English), from Latin familia (“the servants in a household, domestics collectively”), from famulus (“servant”) or famula (“female servant”), from Old Latin famul, of obscure origin. Perhaps derived from or cognate to Oscan famel (“servant”). Doublet of familia. Displaced native Old English h?red.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fæm(?)li/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæm(?)li/, /?fæm?li/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?f?m(?)li/
- Hyphenation: fa?mi?ly, fam?ily
Noun
family (countable and uncountable, plural families)
- (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America
- (countable) Synonym of family member (an individual who belongs to one's family).
- (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- (uncountable, taxonomy) lineage, especially an honorable one
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:
- (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- Synonym: familia
- (countable) 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.
- 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
- When creating a font family, first decide whether to use all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose two or three fonts of that type […]
- 2010, Gary Shelly, Jennifer Campbell, Ollie Rivers, Microsoft Expression Web 3: Complete (page 262)
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Used attributively.
Usage notes
- In some dialects, family is used as a plural (only) noun.
Synonyms
- (relatives): flesh and blood, kin, kinfolk
- (class): Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
- (relatives): nuclear family, immediate family, extended family
- (computing): C family
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: faambli, fambili
- Tok Pisin: famili
- ? Chuukese: famini
- ? Malay: famili
- ? Maori: wh?mere
Translations
Adjective
family (not comparable)
- Suitable for children and adults.
- Conservative, traditional.
- (slang) Homosexual.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- Category:Family
- (taxonomy, rank):
- domain
- kingdom
- phylum/division
- class
- order
- superfamily
- family
- subfamily, tribe
- genus
- species
Further reading
- family on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family of sets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Family (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- family at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “family”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- “family” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- family in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "family" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 1.
- family in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- family in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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relation
English
Etymology
From Middle English relacion, relacioun, from Anglo-Norman relacioun and Old French relacion (whence French relation), from Latin rel?ti?, noun of process form from perfect passive participle rel?tus (“related”), from verb refer? (“I refer, I relate”), from prefix re- (“again”) + fer? (“I bear, I carry”).
Morphologically relate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?-l?'sh?n, IPA(key): /???le???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
relation (countable and uncountable, plural relations)
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
- The act of relating a story.
- 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,[1]
- Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king’s fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
- 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,[2]
- […] seeing they are diversly related by Writers that lived near about one and the self-same time, we may easily perceive that they were common things, derived from precedent Memorials; and that they became various, by reason of the divers Ornaments bestowed on them by particular Relations […]
- 1669, Letter from Dr. Merrett to Thomas Browne, in Simon Wilkin (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne’s Works including his Life and Correspondence, London: William Pickering, 1836, Volume I, p. 443,[1]
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- […] Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.
- (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.
Synonyms
- (way in which two things may be associated): connection, link, relationship
- (member of one's family): relative
- (act of relating a story): recounting, telling
- (mathematics: set of ordered tuples): correspondence
- See also Thesaurus:relative
Hyponyms
- (set theory): function
Derived terms
Related terms
- relate
- relational
- relative
- relator
Translations
Anagrams
- Oriental, Tirolean, oriental, taileron, tenorial
French
Etymology
From Old French relacion, from Latin rel?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.la.sj??/
Noun
relation f (plural relations)
- relation
- relationship
Further reading
- “relation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- enrôlait, oriental
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin rel?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?la??u?n/
Noun
relation c
- relation; how two things may be associated
- (mathematics) relation; set of ordered tuples
- (computing) relation; retrievable by a database
Declension
See also
- samband
Anagrams
- laotiern
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