Synonyms for family
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Household — lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage
household, house, home, genealogy, ancestry, lineage, domestic, birth, pedigree, blood, parentage, stock, line, menage, fold
Other
clan, k'in, people, race, tribe, familia, order, descendant US, descendent UK, kindred, fellowship, breed, flesh and blood
Definitions
- n. 1
Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- n. 2
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.
Our family lives in town.
- n. 3
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. A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.
- n. 4
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- families → households, houses, homes, genealogies…
Example sentences
- home You can get in touch with him at his home tonight.
- house His low salary prevents him from buying the house.
- household Our household expense got into the red last month.
- genealogy Genealogy, otherwise known as family history, is an extremely popular hobby.
- tribe Members of the tribe settled down along the river.
- clan Algeria was under the rule of the Bouteflika clan.
By length
- 3 letters
- mob1
- 4 letters
- home1, line1, race1, sept1, folk1, fold1, clan1
- 5 letters
- house1, order2, class1, blood1, stock1, birth1, tribe1, breed1
- 6 letters
- people2, menage
- 7 letters
- lineage3, kindred2, familia, kinfolk, phratry
- 8 letters
- domestic3, category4, ancestry3, pedigree3
- 9 letters
- household2, syndicate3, genealogy5, parentage3
- 10 letters
- fellowship3, descendant3, descendent3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (order2 = 2 syllables).