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family

A family is a group of people with a blood or marriage relation. My parents and my two brothers are my family. A language family is a group of languages that is believed to have came from the same language. The Indo-European language family is a family of languages that is spoken by 3 billion people.

family

(= household, house, home) 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 primary social group; parents and children he wanted to have a good job before starting a family (= class) a collection of things sharing a common attribute there are two classes of detergents people descended from a common ancestor his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera sharks belong to the fish family (= kin) a person having kinship with another or others he's kin he's 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 (= syndicate) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

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Simple sentences

My friends always say I'm too calm, but my family always says I'm too annoying.
We grew up within our family circle.
I made my whole family leave home.
The royal family lives in the Imperial Palace.
Tom is the tallest in his family.
How do you spell your family name?
I have a family.
My family is not very large.
I went camping with my family.
I know his family.
He is proud of his family.
I'm the black sheep of the family.
My family is fine, thanks.
It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.
The bottles of beer that I brought to the party were redundant; the host's family owned a brewery.
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
You'd better go to see your family doctor at once.
How long have you been alienated from your family?
I have to go to the airport to meet my family.
Have you met the new family on the block?
A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
We are expecting an addition to our family.
My uncle's brother's son got involved in a shady business and disgraced the family.
The spirit of patriotism has its source in the love of the family.
Paul's family spends the summer at the coast every year.
Our family budget is in the red.
His whole family is like that. They're like peas in a pod.
His whole family is like that.
We're practically family.
The family is the basic unit of society.
The family assimilated quickly into their new environment.
May I take a few days off to visit my family?
How is your family?

Movie subtitles

With just this one shirt, I can feed 5 people in my family.
All the guys in my family and neighborhood have been drooling over her.
I want to bury my family.
There will be no shame to your family name!
You only have your family's name backing you!
Watch all your friends and family die Hasa Diga Eebowai!
When I was nine years old, my family took a trip.
I miss my family.
I'm not going back to a life or a job that I like or family or friends or even an ex-boyfriend, and I get that you're sad about that.
But, she doesn't have any family or friends, so who would come.
No way. I want to leave my name in history as the man who defeated the world's best; the Yoshioka family.
Okay, well, of course, we're gonna need a final consent if there are any family members.
I'm her only family.
Mr. Young, we are so excited to have this opportunity to bring you into the Whitefeather family.
Her family's from Spain.
From a noble family.
They decide for the family.
On behalf of France and science, I came to help the emir and his family.
For Allah's sake and for your children, you and your family have my protection.
May Allah watch over you and your family.
May Allah watch over your family and bring you a lot of happiness.
That he take me and my family to a Muslim land.
I came to help the emir's family with French knowledge. May Allah protect them.
Like the Delormes family.
If they had burned your family home in Normandy, seized your land and destroyed your churches?
This field has always belonged to my family.
This ball is my family's blood. You see these brown marks?
You're asking me to go against my family?
Hey, a man's gotta feed his family, and I got a big family.
They want to try to keep the relationship going as much as they can, but they know that it's going to be tricky because Allison's situation with her family. The Argents hunt werewolves.
In season two, Derek's goal is really to find that place of having a sense of family again and belonging.
Scott's responsibilities, I think, grew, in trying to protect his family more.
But they're family, so she accepts Scott's situation and they get closer to one another. Everything that I said before, forget it.
When Allison's father tells her that she's going to be the leader of her family, I think she's probably slightly intimidated by that, but also, I think, a little challenged.
Allison pursues her relationship with Scott even though her family doesn't want her to because she believes in what's right and wrong, and she believes in her intuition. Hey!
They're now part of his family, part of his pack.
But I think Derek's ultimate goal is just to find that place of having a sense of family again and belonging.

News and current affairs

In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.
To be sure, like all European royal families, the origins of the Dutch royal family are decidedly mixed.
Although the Saudi ruling family, the al-Saud, is under enormous pressure to follow the example of its neighbors, internal resistance to doing so remains very strong.
So the al-Saud have become Janus-faced: looking in one direction, the royal family encourages democratic reformers to speak out; looking in the opposite direction, it jails them when they do.
Under regional and international pressure, the Saudi ruling family has constructed a Potemkin village of reform while retaining absolute control over all political developments.
We can dig into their family histories in strife-torn Dagestan, or examine, once again, the lethal appeal of Islamist radicalism.
Above all, the rest of the world has looked on with alarm as the US holds more than 600 men at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without access to family or counsel, and without prospect of an impartial hearing or trial.
Indeed, the 2002-2007 period was the only recovery on record during which the median family's real income declined.
For a farm family of five or six living on one hectare, this means extreme poverty, and for their country, it means reliance on expensive food imports, including food aid.
Both agreed that reform must be slow, cautious and that it must never undermine established institutions, especially religion and the patriarchal family.
Until then, he and Bush shared a common worldview, emphasizing the importance of religion, the traditional family (as both countries understood it), social discipline, and the state's role in supporting these institutions.
Reared as part of a human family, he learned to use more than 100 signs from American Sign Language, the language used by Deaf Americans.
But he was taken from his first human family and handed over to other teachers with whom he did not have the same kind of bond.
This is because societies in which opportunities and inequality are inherited are considered to be less fair than societies in which family background is less important.
She somehow survived, with major health complications, including permanent fistula, which will condemn her to a life of exclusion from her family and unrelieved misery.
In India, for example, feminists articulated to me a vision of women's equality that was family-centered rather than self-centered, and that valued service to community rather than personal gratification.
She was then kept in the dungeon by her husband's family and brutally tortured for months, because she refused to work as a prostitute.
Third, family pride and honor are deemed more important than a woman's individual well-being and safety.
For example, if family members beat or abuse a woman, she has few options.
Often, her only choice is to remain silent or risk disgracing the family.
Gul, for example, complained to the police about her abusive in-laws, but she was returned to the family when some of their influential contacts intervened.
Studies of happiness show that unemployment reduces happiness by as much as the loss of a family member.
Shouldn't that cleaner's drudgery to support her family, children, and her own survival be taken equally into account?
I was so inspired by War's Unwomanly Face that a few years ago I wrote my own book detailing the endurance of women in my family in the war-ravaged Soviet Union.
Even more importantly, Murdoch represented a concept of family business that is common in many parts of the world, but relatively rare in Britain and the United States.
Family capitalism in the continental European model uses relatively little capital to achieve maximum control.
For decades, academic analysts have been fighting over whether such large-scale family businesses should be considered beneficial.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
His land costs are low. So are his labor costs, since he relies on family and friends to weed and pick the crop.
Family history information was obtained from the patient regarding their immediate relatives.
Our findings, validated by family history, thus suggest that bipolar disorder was over-diagnosed.
Being welcomed within the great international family of the West will reassure them, stabilize them, and contribute to their political, cultural, and economic development.

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