English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of family

family

/noun/ परिवार; वंश; परिजन; कुटुंब; घराना; गृहस्थी; गोत्र; जाति; कुनबा; अयाल; संतति; कुल; वर्ग; श्रेणी; बाल-
/adjective/वंशगत; वंश-संबंधी;

Synonym house; seed; kin; household; clan; menage; race; kindred; mane; offspring; aggregate; square;

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English Dictionary:

1. Family

[v. t.]

- The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
- The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
- Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
- Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
- Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
- A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
- A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.