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What does family mean?

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Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (countable) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  3. (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
  4. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  5. (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.
  6. (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
  7. (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
  8. Used attributively.
Adjective
  1. Suitable for children and adults.
  2. Conservative, traditional.
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