| family | | |
| n. (group) | 1. family, home, house, household, 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" |
| ~ broken home | a family in which the parents have separated or divorced. |
| ~ conjugal family, nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner. |
| ~ extended family | a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives. |
| ~ foster family | the family of a fosterling. |
| ~ foster home | a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency). |
| ~ menage a trois | household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations. |
| ~ social unit, unit | an organization regarded as part of a larger social group.; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" |
| n. (group) | 2. family, family unit | primary social group; parents and children.; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| ~ clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, kin, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage. |
| ~ mates, couple, match | a pair of people who live together.; "a married couple from Chicago" |
| ~ man and wife, married couple, marriage | two people who are married to each other.; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love" |
| ~ bronte sisters | a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels. |
| ~ marx brothers | a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor. |
| ~ child, kid | a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age.; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" |
| ~ parent | a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian. |
| ~ sib, sibling | a person's brother or sister. |
| n. (group) | 3. category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
| ~ grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties. |
| ~ substitution class, paradigm | the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another). |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ brass family | (music) the family of brass instruments. |
| ~ violin family | (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments. |
| ~ woodwind family | (music) the family of woodwind instruments. |
| ~ stamp | a type or class.; "more men of his stamp are needed" |
| ~ sex | either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided.; "the war between the sexes" |
| ~ declension | a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms.; "the first declension in Latin" |
| ~ conjugation | a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms. |
| ~ denomination | a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money.; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations" |
| ~ histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response. |
| ~ superphylum | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass. |
| n. (group) | 4. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ people | members of a family line.; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" |
| ~ homefolk | the people of your home locality (especially your own family).; "he wrote his homefolk every day" |
| ~ house | aristocratic family line.; "the House of York" |
| ~ dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family. |
| ~ gens, name | family based on male descent.; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" |
| ~ ancestry, blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, line of descent, stemma, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| n. (person) | 5. family, kin, kinsperson | a person having kinship with another or others.; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| ~ affine | (anthropology) kin by marriage. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| n. (group) | 6. family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.; "sharks belong to the fish family" |
| ~ bunyaviridae | a large family of arboviruses that affect a wide range of hosts (mainly vertebrates and arthropods). |
| ~ filoviridae | a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees). |
| ~ togaviridae | a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods. |
| ~ flaviviridae | a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods. |
| ~ arenaviridae | a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods. |
| ~ rhabdoviridae | a family of arborviruses carried by arthropods. |
| ~ reoviridae | a family of arboviruses carried by arthropods. |
| ~ bacteria family | a family of bacteria. |
| ~ protoctist family | any of the families of Protoctista. |
| ~ endamoebidae, family endamoebidae | a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract. |
| ~ fish family | any of various families of fish. |
| ~ chordate family | any family in the phylum Chordata. |
| ~ bird family | a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
| ~ amphibian family | any family of amphibians. |
| ~ reptile family | a family of reptiles. |
| ~ arthropod family | any of the arthropods. |
| ~ mammal family | a family of mammals. |
| ~ coelenterate family | a family of coelenterates. |
| ~ ctenophore family | a family of ctenophores. |
| ~ worm family | a family of worms. |
| ~ mollusk family | a family of mollusks. |
| ~ family panorpidae, panorpidae | a family of insects of the order Mecoptera. |
| ~ bittacidae, family bittacidae | a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera. |
| ~ echinoderm family | a family of echinoderms. |
| ~ biological science, biology | the science that studies living organisms. |
| ~ taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group | animal or plant group having natural relations. |
| ~ order | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families. |
| ~ form family | (biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure. |
| ~ subfamily | (biology) a taxonomic category below a family. |
| ~ tribe | (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily. |
| ~ genus | (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species. |
| ~ moss family | a family of mosses. |
| ~ liliopsid family, monocot family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed. |
| ~ dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination. |
| ~ fungus family | includes lichen families. |
| ~ plant family | a family of plants. |
| ~ fern family | families of ferns and fern allies. |
| n. (group) | 7. crime syndicate, family, mob, syndicate | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. |
| ~ gangdom, gangland, organized crime | underworld organizations. |
| ~ cosa nostra, maffia, mafia | a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia. |
| n. (group) | 8. 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" |
| ~ association | a formal organization of people or groups of people.; "he joined the Modern Language Association" |
| ~ koinonia | Christian fellowship or communion with God or with fellow Christians; said in particular of the early Christian community. |
| folk | | |
| n. (group) | 1. common people, folk, folks | people in general (often used in the plural).; "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ country people, countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics. |
| ~ gentlefolk | people of good family and breeding and high social status. |
| ~ grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity). |
| ~ home folk | folks from your own home town. |
| ~ ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble | disparaging terms for the common people. |
| ~ pleb, plebeian | one of the common people. |
| n. (group) | 2. folk, tribe | a social division of (usually preliterate) people. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ moiety | one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe. |
| ~ phyle | a tribe of ancient Athenians. |
| n. (communication) | 3. ethnic music, folk, folk music | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community. |
| ~ folk ballad, folk song, folksong | a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture. |
| ~ schottische | music performed for dancing the schottische. |
| ~ popular music, popular music genre | any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). |
| ~ c and w, country and western, country music | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments. |
| ~ gospel singing, gospel | folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul). |
| ~ square-dance music | music performed for square dancing. |
| inflorescence | | |
| n. (process) | 1. anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence | the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. |
| ~ growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
| n. (plant) | 2. inflorescence | the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk. |
| ~ blossom, bloom, flower | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. |
| ~ flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae. |
| ~ ament, catkin | a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence. |
| ~ umbel | flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center. |
| ~ corymb | flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first. |
| ~ flower cluster | an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers. |
| ~ cyme | more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first. |
| ~ spike | (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis. |
| ~ bract | a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence. |
| tassel | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. tassel | adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end. |
| ~ adornment | a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness. |
| ~ sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword. |
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