Third-person singular simple present indicative form of start a family

A gallery in a theater, generally one containing inexpensive seats. / The social circle comprising one's family.

(medicine) A form of medical fraud in which the patient is encouraged to refer or bring along family members who have no particular reason to come but will provide the practitioner with more work.

A family, one of whose members is a member of one of the charitable pearly guilds from East London, and who dress in unique pearly suits for election as pearly kings and queens in April each year.

plural of pearly family

(anthropology) A family system in which a couple's firstborn child lives with them in the family home, and that child's spouse moves into the home of said in-laws, so that the younger couple's children are raised in the home of their grandparents. Usually, the younger offspring move out upon marriage. The inheritance, depending on the culture, may or may not be the most favorable to the firstborn.

plural of royal family

(Christianity) Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and Joseph.

plural of foster family

A family in the working class.