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offshoot
English
Etymology
From off- +? shoot.
Noun
offshoot (plural offshoots)
- That which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
- the offshoots of a tree
- That which develops from something else.
- an offshoot of a criminal organization
Synonyms
- spin-off/spinoff
Translations
Further reading
- offshoot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- offshoot in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- shoot off
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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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