English to English Dictionary - Meaning of Family in English is : lineage, stock, clan, line, descent, race, blood, kin, strain, ancestry, extraction, house, pedigree, offspring, household, home, kindred, people, progeny, genealogy,

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	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 / The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager / a mother and father and their children / a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.,

Usage	⇒ He moved his family to Virginia ⇒ The good thing about having a big family , all living together, is having the support, and not being lonely. ⇒ I wants to work in the family business ⇒ she is a girl of good family ⇒ I don't have any family
Synonyms	lineage, stock, clan, line, descent, race, blood, kin, strain, ancestry, extraction, house, pedigree, offspring, household, home, kindred, people, progeny, genealogy,
Antonyms	baggy, ancestor, ancestry, forebear, ascend, ascent, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, beastly, birth, biting, branch, callous, caustic, cell, civic, civil, coarse, combat,

Synonyms explanation is given below :

Ancestry

descent, lineage, pedigree, extraction, stock, parentage, line, family, genealogy, origin,

She is very proud of her ancestry / David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of his ancestors was a court trumpeter some...

Blood

lineage, family, stock, descent, ancestry, line, parentage, pedigree, gore, birth,

Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away He avenged the blood of his kinsmen A person of hot blood We need more youn...

Clan

tribe, race, family, lineage, stock, house, kin, set, folk, gang, society, fraternity,

He belongs to the Anglo-Saxon clan / Tartan ties, scarves and even a map of the Scottish clans filled the window of the shop. / Each south thailand clan has ...

Descent

lineage, fall, ancestry, pedigree, stock, extraction, decline, parentage, drop, family,

The plane began descent towards Hove Airport / the plane had gone into a steep descent / Before the climb up the mountain the descent seemed difficult

Extraction

descent, lineage, parentage, ancestry, pedigree, stock, origin, family, birth, bloodline,

mineral extraction / The extraction of coal and other natural resources

Genealogy

lineage, pedigree, descent, stock, ancestry, extraction, family, family tree, line,

Man is said to be the geneology of monkey / He was proud of his genealogy and constantly referred to the achievements of his ancestors. / They've been resear...

Home

abode, residence, dwelling, habitation, domicile, house, household, domestic, family,

In this story, the first sago came from inside a man's body who defecated and the sago fell to the ground and became a sago palm.

House

residence, shelter, domicile, home, lodge, dwelling, abode, family, habitation, company,

Real foxes do, indeed, sometimes make their homes under human houses and, increasingly in this country at any rate, under city homes. / the house supports th...

Household

home, family, house, domestic, menage, ordinary, everyday, familiar, common, commonplace,

the whole household was asleep / We are a household of five people and a cat. / We all share the household chores.

Kin

family, kindred, relation, clan, relative, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kinfolk,

She is my kin, I should not leave her alone / She is my kin / I should not leave her alone / he was kin to the brothers

Kindred

related, akin, kin, cognate, family, similar, consanguine, germane, consanguineous,

They belong to the same kindred / Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were two kindred spirits. / He went out to sea, and never saw his kindred again. / books on kindre...

Line

string, family, lineage, row, stock, rank, occupation, business, descent, queue, strain,

A horizontal line / As the cantilever executes small torsion resonant oscillations by twisting about its long axis, the cantilever's free end and the AFM tip...

Lineage

descent, stock, family, pedigree, ancestry, line, parentage, extraction, blood, genealogy,

He has an aristrocratic lineage / He traced his lineage back to Mayflower days. / his Italian lineage was very important to him / He can also claim lineage t...

Offspring

issue, progeny, young, posterity, descendant, child, family, brood, children, scion,

She had three offsprings from her second wedding / the offspring of middle-class parents

Pedigree

lineage, stock, descent, extraction, ancestry, family, genealogy, parentage, line, origin,

Ram is a pedigree man / That horse has an impressive pedigree. / ‘In doing this they get to know the animals, their pedigrees and so on, as they need to have...

People

public, populace, population, masses, multitude, folk, populate, citizenry, community,

I met many people in the conference / the earthquake killed 3, people

Progeny

offspring, issue, family, children, posterity, young, brood, child, descendant, seed,

Shri krishna was the progeny of Devaki / He was proud of his progeny but regarded George as the most promising of all his children. / Many Americans are the ...

Race

durh, nrm, shad, ahtsnk, raryh, seesp, rsnipk, rfl, mgyfli, otkso, aent, stcks, nibrts,

The race of time may leave you behind if you slumber / I won the first 5-lap race / the soldiers of old were a tough breed / the white race

Stock

lineage, store, supply, family, stockpile, descent, pedigree, hoard, ordinary, strain,

The shop has a stock of good quality rice / Although the stationery store kept only stock sizes of paper on hand, the staff would special-order any items not...

Strain

pressure, stock, stress, struggle, burden, race, breed, stretch, tax, family, wrench,

I had to strain myself to listen to her as she spoke in a very low voice / the usual type of chair puts an enormous strain on the spine / I mustn't put too m...

Antonyms explanation is given below :

Ancestor

progenitor, forefather, forebear, forerunner, father, parent, predecessor, antecedent,

According to some anthropologists, monkeys are ancestors of human beings / According to some anthropologists / monkeys are ancestors of human beings / my anc...

Ancestry

descent, lineage, pedigree, extraction, stock, parentage, line, family, genealogy, origin,

She is very proud of her ancestry / David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of his ancestors was a court trumpeter some...

Ascend

rise, climb, mount, go up, arise, soar, scale, uprise, come up, float, get up, advance,

The path started to ascend more steeply at this point / she ascended the stairs

Ascent

rise, incline, acclivity, ascension, grade, climb, rising, upgrade, elevation, slope,

We reached a point from where we could clearly view the ascent of Mount Everest / the first ascent of the Matterhorn / The ascent of a mountain

Atrocious

heinous, awful, abominable, terrible, monstrous, wicked, flagitious, bad, dreadful,

His behaviour at the party was atrocious / atrocious cruelties / An atrocious misconduct

Baggy

loose, slack, lax, limp, floppy, sloppy, flabby, loose-fitting, sagging, drooping,

baggy pants

Barbarian

savage, crude, uncivilized, Philistine, barbaric, wild, barbarous, brute, rude, coarse,

Sometimes videojockies act like barbarians / barbarian invasions

Barbaric

savage, barbarous, brutal, inhuman, cruel, uncivilized, rude, brutish, fierce, wild,

Ram is a barbaric man / he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war / The music was barbaric and wild

Beastly

nasty, abominable, awful, brutal, offensive, disgusting, terrible, vile, revolting,

The boy was beastly at the game. / this beastly war

Birth

origin, beginning, start, genesis, commencement, dawn, extraction, inception, creation,

They divorced after the birth of the child They celebrated the birth of their first child / They divorced after the birth of the child / he was blind from bi...

Biting

bitter, cutting, sharp, sarcastic, keen, acid, caustic, acrimonious, pungent, mordant,

It was biting cold outside / a biting wind that only the toughest football fans were willing to endure / ridding the premises of biting red ants / to give a ...

Branch

offshoot, fork, division, bough, divide, department, part, ramify, diverge, limb,

A branch of Congress He broke off one of the branches / A branch of Congress / Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches ...

Callous

unfeeling, insensitive, hard, heartless, indifferent, unsympathetic, cold, ruthless, stony,

He showed a callous indifference to her sufferings / He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards. / a s...

Caustic

bitter, acid, acrimonious, mordant, sarcastic, sharp, biting, acrid, cutting, acerbic,

Soda can be caustic / The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm. / The chemical was so caustic that it ate...

Cell

chamber, cubicle, dungeon, room, recess, compartment, hole, jail, pen, coop, apartment,

Bees store honey in the cells of honeycomb / I will cell you later. / So what that means is that he's locked up at night in a prison cell on his own, so that...

Civic

civil, public, municipal, national, political, urban, city, local, communal, civilian,

The residents should have civic sense to keep the city clean / civic and business leaders / I feel civic pride in the new building

Civil

polite, courteous, gracious, mannerly, respectful, well-mannered, civilized, public, civic,

The country faced civil disorder during partition / Although Internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always civil to suspected tax e...

Coarse

rude, vulgar, crude, rough, unrefined, gross, indecent, obscene, uncouth, dirty,

I have a coarse skin / a coarse woolen cloth / A coat of coarse cloth / I survived on very coarse food / coarse fabric

Combat

fight, battle, war, conflict, struggle, contest, encounter, warfare, engagement, resist,

They last the combat / men killed in combat / Drugs to combat virus

Forebear

ancestor, progenitor, forefather, forerunner, father, predecessor, antecedent, parent,

I dont know the whereabouts of my forebears / His forebears fought in the American Civil War. / One cannot hope to rise or succeed in the world unless one's ...

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