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family
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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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sort
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s??t/
- (US) IPA(key): /s??t/
- Homophone: sought (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).
Noun
sort (plural sorts)
- A general type.
- Manner; form of being or acting.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
- (dated) Group, company.
- (Britain, informal) A good-looking woman.
- An act of sorting.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
- (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.
Synonyms
- (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
- (person): character, individual, person, type
- (act of sorting): sort-out
- (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
- (typography): glyph, type
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French sortir (“allot, sort”), from Latin sortire (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.
Verb
sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- Synonyms: categorize, class, classify, group
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- Synonyms: order, rank
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- Synonym: sort out
- (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- Synonym: sort out
- If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!
- (transitive) To geld.
Usage notes
- In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.
Derived terms
- re-sort, resort
- sorted
- sorting
- sort out
Translations
Further reading
- sort at OneLook Dictionary Search
- sort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /?s??t/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?s?rt/
- Rhymes: -??t
Noun
sort f (uncountable)
- luck
- fortune
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?so??d?]
Adjective
sort
- black (absorbing most light)
- under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
Inflection
Derived terms
- (illicitly undisclosed): sort arbejde, sorte penge, sort marked
Adverb
sort
- under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation
Derived terms
- arbejde sort
See also
References
- “sort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?s??d?]
Noun
sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)
- sort, kind
- quality
- brand
- (botany) cultivar
Declension
References
- “sort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Estonian
Etymology
From German Sorte.
Noun
sort (genitive sordi, partitive sorti)
- kind, sort, brand
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??/
- Homophone: sors
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Old French sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.
Noun
sort m (plural sorts)
- fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
- lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
- spell (magical incantation)
Derived terms
- le sort en est jeté
- mauvais sort
- tirage au sort
- tirer au sort
Related terms
- sorcier
- sorte
- sortir
Etymology 2
See sortir.
Verb
sort
- third-person singular present indicative of sortir
Further reading
- “sort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Alternative forms
- sord (alternative orthography)
Etymology
From Latin surdus.
Adjective
sort
- deaf
Related terms
- sordine
See also
- mut
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ort]
- Rhymes: -ort
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English shorts.
Noun
sort (plural sortok)
- shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)
Declension
Synonyms
- rövidnadrág
Etymology 2
sor +? -t
Noun
sort
- accusative singular of sor
Derived terms
- sort kerít
References
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.
Noun
sort m (plural sorts)
- (Jersey) fate
Synonyms
- destinné (“fate, destiny”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse svartr; compare Danish sort
Alternative forms
- svart
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Adjective
sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)
- black (colour)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French sorte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sorter, definite plural sortene)
- a sort, kind or type
References
- “sort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French sorte.
Noun
sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sortar, definite plural sortane)
- a sort, kind or type
References
- “sort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Plautdietsch
Noun
sort f (plural Sorten)
- sort, kind, type, ilk, variety
Polish
Etymology
From French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Latin sors, sortem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?rt/
Noun
sort m inan
- (colloquial) sort (type)
- Synonyms: gatunek, rodzaj
Declension
Derived terms
- (verbs) sortowa?, posortowa?, przesortowa?, wysortowa?
- (nouns) sortomierz, sortowacz, sortowaczka, sortownik, sortownica, sortownia
Related terms
- (noun) sorter
- (noun phrase) sortownik papierniczy
- (adjective) sortowniczy
Further reading
- sort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- sort in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French sorte.
Noun
sort n (plural sorturi)
- sort, kind, variety
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from French sorte.
Pronunciation
Noun
sort c
- sort, kind
Declension
Synonyms
- slag
Anagrams
- Tors, orts, rost, rots, stor, tros
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