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(n)
A unit of people consisting of family members, distant or immediate.
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(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
(US) Relatives, relations.
Alternative spelling of kinfolk. [(US) Relatives, relations.]
A kinsman or kinswoman.
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
A company of people that share the same interest or aim.
Alternative form of ménage. [A household; a domestic situation.]
(collective plural) People, persons.
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
people descended from a common ancestor
(US) People in general; everybody or anybody.
(adj)
Of or pertaining to a human family.
(historical) A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
(uncountable) Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
Of or relating to genealogy.
The state of being related, especially by kinship.
Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
The state of being a parent
(often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
A name acquired from one's father.
A person fulfilling a parental role.
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
A married person.
A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
(chiefly India) A classified advertisement describing a person who wishes to find a marriage partner.
Pertaining to marriage.
Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
The primary income-earner in a household.
(Canada, US, Philippines) A carer; a person who looks after another person.
domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.
(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
A maid or household servant.
Alternative form of homie. [(African-American Vernacular) Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.]
The act of one who cares.
A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
(witchcraft) An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
(countable) A collection of things or people united as a group.
A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
The state of being captive.
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
A systematic plan of future action.
(law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
(countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
(slang) house
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
(slang) Alternative spelling of holmes. [(slang) An informal term of address, like man or dude.]
(adv)
(with a superlative adjective) Beyond all others.
An end or conclusion.
A small house.
(finance) The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.
An instance of descending; act of coming down.
A (normally) complete range.
(slang, fiction) The Soviet Union.
A lobby, corridor, or waiting room, used in a hotel, theater, etc.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
Synonym of gama grass.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
A surname.
The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
(N)
a 1989 American black comedy horror film directed by Bob Balaban and starring Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis and Bryan Madorsky.
the fifth studio album by American rock band Death Cab for Cutie, released August 30, 2005 on Atlantic Records.
a 1982 American-New Zealand drama film directed by Peter Werner and starring Tatum O'Neal, Colin Friels and David Hemmings.
That has been captured.
a 1994 British romantic crime drama film directed by Angela Pope and written by the Dublin screenwriter Frank Deasy.
A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
The sound of an explosion.
UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of dependent.
(Dutch for Family) a Flemish television soap opera set in Mechelen.