Family is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FAMILY in dictionary:

VERB:
• The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
• The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
• Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
• Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
• Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
• A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
• A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
NOUN:
• a group of persons related by blood or marriage
• a group consisting of two parents and their children living together as a unit
• a group of people related by blood or marriage
• the children of a person or couple being discussed
• a local organizational unit of the Mafia or other large criminal group.
• all the descendants of a common ancestor
• a group of peoples from a common stock.
• a group of related things
• a principal taxonomic category that ranks above genus and below order, usually ending in -idae (in zoology) or -aceae (in botany)
• all the languages ultimately derived from a particular early language, regarded as a group
• a group of curves or surfaces obtained by varying the value of a constant in the equation generating them.
• group of parents and their children
• a social unit living together
• primary social group; parents and children
• a collection of things sharing a common attribute
• people descended from a common ancestor
• a person having kinship with another or others
• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
• a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
ADJECTIVE:
• designed to be suitable for children as well as adults
• suitable for parents and children together

Words related to FAMILY

families13

Words that contain FAMILY

nonfamily17 profamily19 subfamily19 antifamily18 stepfamily20 familyhood22 interfamily19 multifamily21 superfamily21 familyhoods23

How to use FAMILY in a sentence

• I know a family in which are three small girls, between whom there is very little difference in age.
• Since his arrest and conviction his family has undergone severe hardships.
• Bruce, or any of the family, I went as much as possible through back streets and by-ways.
• I came across the mountain to Clarksville with a Methodist preacher and his family and married here.
• O king, Damayanti, well guarding the honour of thy family, hath enhanced it.
• Perhaps conditions on Worthy Park had been more favorable at an earlier period, when the owner and his family may possibly have been resident there.
• Gulmore, at whose church the Prying family attended.
• As if to pile horror upon horror, one night, as Esther and the entire family were seated in the parlor, the ghost appeared.
• Not only did he entertain his leisure with wrecking the happiness of a united family, but he was an enemy open and declared of France.
• Joel Siple is raising an intelligent and industrious family.
• Agrippina, the widow of Germanicus, together with her numerous family, next aroused the hostility of Sejanus, and he resolved upon their destruction.
• Her name and family were among the oldest in the French and Spanish colonies.
• If father ever earned any money but little of it was contributed to the family support.
• Seldom in either place do they see any human being, except the members of their own family, and not one of the family can read.
• This holy Father believed that he was especially protected by Heaven, and that once, when journeying on a desolate road, he was hospitably entertained by the Holy Family.
• The royal family had been kept in very strict confinement at the Temple.
• This venerable patriarch lived to see the blessing of his Covenant-God, and the reward of his own training, in the highly honourable and successful career of his family.
• When the Jerome Manufacturing Company failed, every dollar that I had saved out of a long life of toil and labor was not enough to support my family for one year.
• But had his sin consisted only in that, I should not have dreamed of refusing my assistance as a family lawyer.
• I was happy in my family, and enjoyed all the pleasures of country life, and the neighbouring provinces were full of other exiles.
• Yet the universal instinct asserted itself, and for the time courtesies were set aside, and family affections were all that were regarded.
• The village of Hutton Buscel obtains its name from the Buscel family which came over to England with William the Norman.
• I made the excuse of saving the family name and property generally.

Similar words containing FAMI without suffix ly

famine11 faming12 famish14 famille12 famines12 defaming15 familial13 familiar13 families13 familism15 familist13 familles13 famished17 famishes16 infamies13 infaming14 infamise13 infamize22 defamings16 disfaming16 familiars14 familisms16 famishing18 infamised15 infamises14 infamized24 infamizes23 nonfamily17 profamily19 subfamily19 antifamily18 familiarly18 familistic17 famishment20 infamising16 infamizing25 stepfamily20 unfamiliar15 familyhood22 familiarise16 familiarity19 familiarize25 famishments21 interfamily19 multifamily21 nonfamilial16 nonfamilies16 subfamilies18 superfamily21 familyhoods23 unfamiliars16 familiarised18 familiariser17 familiarises17 familiarized27 familiarizer26 familiarizes26 familiarness17 overfamiliar20 stepfamilies19 unfamiliarly20 familiarisers18 familiarising19 familiarities18 familiarizers27 familiarizing28 interfamilial18 materfamilias20 multifamilies20 paterfamilias20 superfamilies20 ultrafamiliar18 unfamiliarity21 defamiliarize28 familiarnesses19 forisfamiliate22 matresfamilias21 patresfamilias21 defamiliarized30 defamiliarizes29 familiarisation20 familiarization29 forisfamiliated24 forisfamiliates23 materfamiliases22 overfamiliarity26 paterfamiliases22 unfamiliarities20 defamiliarizing31 overfamiliariti23 familiarizations30 overfamiliarities25

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