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family
A	noun
	1	family, family unit
			primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚kin; kin group; kinship group; kindred; clan; tribe ╚family, family unit ╚Marx Brothers ╚marriage; married couple; man and wife ╚couple; mates; match
	2	family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry
			people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚kin; kin group; kinship group; kindred; clan; tribe ╚genealogy; family tree ╚lineage; line; line of descent; descent; bloodline; blood line; blood; pedigree; ancestry; origin; parentage; stemma; stock ╚family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry ╚name; gens ╚dynasty ╚house ╚homefolk ╚people
	3	class, category, family
			a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚collection; aggregation; accumulation; assemblage ╚class, category, family ╚conjugation ╚declension ╚sex ╚stamp ╚substitution class; paradigm ╚grammatical category; syntactic category ╚Malacostraca; subclass Malacostraca ╚Diplopoda; class Diplopoda; Myriapoda; class Myriapoda ╚Larvacea; class Larvacea
	4	family, household, house, home, menage
			a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚organization; organisation ╚unit; social unit ╚family, household, house, home, menage ╚menage a trois ╚foster home ╚foster family ╚extended family ╚nuclear family; conjugal family
	5	family
			(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚biological group ╚taxonomic group; taxonomic category; taxon ╚family ╚fish family ╚Endamoebidae; family Endamoebidae ╚protoctist family ╚bacteria family ╚Filoviridae
	6	family, fellowship
			an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚organization; organisation ╚association ╚family, fellowship ╚koinonia
	7	syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family
			a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚organized crime; gangland; gangdom ╚syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family ╚Mafia; Maffia; Cosa Nostra
	8	kin, kinsperson, family
			a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚relative; relation ╚kin, kinsperson, family ╚affine

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