n (countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
n (countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
n (countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
n (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
n (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
n (gay slang) The gay community.
n (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
n (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
n (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.
n (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
n (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
n (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
adj Suitable for children and adults.
adj (gay slang) Homosexual.
n A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption)