English Dictionary

family

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(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.

日本語の意味

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）

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

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。

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(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

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.

I have a lot of family in Australia.

意味（5）

(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

crime family, Mafia family

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

意味（8）

(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.

Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.

意味（9）

(set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.

Let ℱ be a family of subsets over S.

意味（10）

(countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

the brass family; the violin family

意味（11）

(countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

the Indo-European language family; the Afroasiatic language family

families （ plural ）