(countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together. / (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.

A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.

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

plural of family pole

(law) The area of private law pertaining to family matters and domestic relations.

plural of family grouping

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

(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.

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.

The quality of being family-friendly.