family - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

primary social group; parents and children

Synonyms

• family
• family unit

More generic

• clan
• kin
• kin group
• kindred
• kinship group
• tribe

More specific

• couple
• man and wife
• marriage
• married couple
• match
• mates

Related

• child
• kid
• parent
• sib
• sibling

Noun

people descended from a common ancestor

Synonyms

• family
• family line
• folk
• kinfolk
• kinsfolk
• phratry
• sept

More generic

• ancestry
• blood
• blood line
• bloodline
• descent
• line
• line of descent
• lineage
• origin
• parentage
• pedigree
• stemma
• stock

More specific

• dynasty
• gens
• homefolk
• house
• name
• people

Noun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute

Synonyms

• category
• class
• family

More generic

• accumulation
• aggregation
• assemblage
• collection

More specific

• brass family
• conjugation
• declension
• denomination
• grammatical category
• histocompatibility complex
• paradigm
• sex
• stamp
• substitution class
• syntactic category
• violin family
• woodwind family

Related

• superphylum

Noun

a social unit living together

Synonyms

• family
• home
• house
• household
• menage

More generic

• social unit
• unit

More specific

• broken home
• conjugal family
• extended family
• foster family
• foster home
• menage a trois
• nuclear family

Noun

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera

Synonyms

• family

More generic

• taxon
• taxonomic category
• taxonomic group

More specific

• Bittacidae
• Endamoebidae
• Filoviridae
• Panorpidae
• amphibian family
• arthropod family
• bacteria family
• bird family
• chordate family
• coelenterate family
• ctenophore family
• dicot family
• echinoderm family
• family Bittacidae
• family Endamoebidae
• family Panorpidae
• fern family
• fish family
• form family
• fungus family
• liliopsid family
• magnoliopsid family
• mammal family
• mollusk family
• monocot family
• moss family
• plant family
• protoctist family
• reptile family
• worm family

Related

• Arenaviridae
• Bunyaviridae
• Flaviviridae
• Reoviridae
• Rhabdoviridae
• Togaviridae
• genus
• subfamily
• tribe

Related

• order

Noun

an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

Synonyms

• family
• fellowship

More generic

• association

More specific

• koinonia

Noun

a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

Synonyms

• crime syndicate
• family
• mob
• syndicate

More generic

• gangdom
• gangland
• organized crime

More specific

• Cosa Nostra
• Maffia
• Mafia

Noun

a person having kinship with another or others

Synonyms

• family
• kin
• kinsperson

More generic

• relation
• relative

More specific

• affine

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