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(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.

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family

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/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

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(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.

Japanese Meaning

家族（血縁、婚姻、養子縁組などにより密接に結びついた人々の集団。特に、両親とその子供を中心とする基礎的な家族）

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Every summer, our family gathers at the lakeside cabin to share stories and celebrate our traditions.

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毎年夏、私たちの家族は湖畔の小屋に集まり、思い出話をしたり伝統を祝ったりします。

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(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.

Our family lives in town.

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(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America

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(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

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(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.

I have a lot of family in Australia.

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crime family, Mafia family

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(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.

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Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

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(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.