A social unit living together:
— He moved his family to Virginia.
— The family refused to accept his will.

synonyms: home, house, household, menage.

Roget 167: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.    child, son, daughter; butcha^†; bantling, scion; acrospire^†, plumule^†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit^†, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.    straight descent, sonship^†, line, lineage, filiation^†, primogeniture.    ... show more

Roget 712: party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band.    horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, etc. 166; team; tong.    council etc. 696.    community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere^†, familistery^†; brotherhood, sisterhood.    knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino^†; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].    corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company; copartnership^†, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.    society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union; league, syndicate, alliance, Verein [G.], Bund [G.], Zollverein [G.], combination; Turnverein [G.]; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal, camarilla^†, camorra^†, brigue^†; freemasonry; party spirit etc. (cooperation) 709.    Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.. staff; dramatis personae [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 166: paternity; parentage; consanguinity etc. 11.    parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba^†; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire^†, grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership^†, fatherhood; mabap^†.    house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.    motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother.    ... show more

Roget 69: continuity; consecution, consecutiveness etc. adj.; succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.    procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array.    pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain.    rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.    ... show more

Dutch: familie, gezin, huisgezin, huishouden, huishouding
Polish: domownicy

Primary social group; parents and children:
— He wanted to have a good job before starting a family.

synonym: family unit.

Dutch: gezin, familie
Polish: najbliżsi, najbliższa rodzina, ognisko domowe, ognisko rodzinne, rodzina

A collection of things sharing a common attribute.

synonyms: category, class.

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema^†, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.    manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.    similarity etc. 17.    ... show more

Dutch: klas, laag, categorie, klasse
Polish: rodzina

People descended from a common ancestor:
— His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower.

synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept.

Roget 372: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.    [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny^†, anthropography^†, anthroposophy^†; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.    human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae [Lat.]; quidam [Lat.].    people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million etc. (commonalty) 876; population etc. (inhabitant) 188.    tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.    cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.    ... show more

Roget 11: consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood; parentage etc. (paternity) 166; filiation^†, affiliation; lineage, agnation^†, connection, alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism.    kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german^†; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice removed; etc. near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood.    family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood^†.    race, stock, generation; sept etc. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.    ... show more

Dutch: familie, geslacht, huis, maagschap, staak, stam, tak
Polish: familia, klan, parantela, ród, rodzina

A person having kinship with another or others:
— He's family.

synonyms: kin, kinsperson.

biology A taxonomic group containing one or more genera.

Dutch: familie
Polish: rodzina

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities.

synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate.

Polish: syndykat zbrodni, mafia

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.

synonym: fellowship.