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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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type
English
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?p/
- Rhymes: -a?p
Noun
type (plural types)
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.
- 1872, Mary Rose Godfrey, Loyal, volume 3, page 116:
- (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- The headline was set in bold type.
- (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- (medicine) A blood group.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, water, ammonia, and methane.
- (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
- Logics of the second and higher orders may be regarded as type-theoretic systems.
- 2011, V.N. Grishin (originator), "Types, theory of", in Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Types,_theory_of&oldid=14150
Synonyms
- (grouping based on shared characteristics): category, class, genre, group, kind, nature, sort, stripe, tribe
- (computing theory): data type
- (printing): sort
- (mathematics): sort
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???
- ? Korean: ?? (taip)
Translations
Verb
type (third-person singular simple present types, present participle typing, simple past and past participle typed)
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- To determine the blood type of.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- Let us type them now in our own lives.
- To categorize into types.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Esperanto: tajpi
Translations
References
- type at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- pyet
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from ????? (túpt?, “I strike, beat”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ty?pe
Noun
type n (plural types or typen, diminutive typetje n)
- type: a class, someone or something from a class. The diminutive is used when made into a caricature.
Derived terms
- woningtype
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: tipe
Verb
type
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of typen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tip/
Noun
type m (plural types)
- type; sort, kind
- (colloquial) guy, bloke, man
- (typography) typeface
Descendants
- ? Polish: typ
- ? Romanian: tip
Adjective
type (plural types)
- typical, normal, classic
- (statistics) standard
Further reading
- “type” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
type
- vocative singular of typus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typer, definite plural typene)
- a type (kind, sort)
- typeface
- (slang) a male person, a boy or man
- (slang) someone's boyfriend
References
- “type” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).
Noun
type m (definite singular typen, indefinite plural typar, definite plural typane)
- a type (kind, sort)
References
- “type” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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