Meaning

• A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

  "Our family lives in town."

• 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"

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

  "Our company is one big happy family."

• Lineage, especially an honorable one

• A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

  "Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae."

• 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."

• A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

  "the brass family;  the violin family"

• A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

  "the Indo-European language family;  the Afroasiatic language family"

• Used attributively.

  "For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic."

Meaning

• Suitable for children and adults.

  "It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant."

• Conservative, traditional.

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

• Homosexual.

  "I knew he was family when I first met him."

Meaning

• A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.