FAMILY

n. 1 (kith and) kin, kinsmen, kindred, kinsfolk or US and Canadian kinfolk, next of kin, relatives, relations, household, people, one's own flesh and blood, one's nearest and dearest, ménage, Colloq folks We usually spend the holidays with my family 2 children, offspring, progeny, issue, brood, Colloq kids Large families were much more common in the 19th century 3 ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors; ancestry, parentage, descent, extraction, derivation, lineage, pedigree, genealogy, family tree, house, line, bloodline, dynasty; blood, stock, strain He came from an old family of German bankers 4 group, set, division, subdivision, classification, type, kind, class, genre, order, species, genus English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages