English-French translations for family

• famille
  Je suis né dans une famille de fermiers et d’artisans. My family were farmers and craftsmen.
  Gilad et sa famille ont besoin de notre aide. Gilad and his family need our help.
  On ne peut pas nourrir une famille avec un Mac-Job! You cannot feed a family on a McJob!
• familial
  affaires relatives à l'état matrimonial ou familial, matters of marital or family status
• maison
  Ce n'est que pour les familles riches, dans lesquelles les femmes peuvent rester à la maison et voir le budget familial diminuer. That is only for rich families, in which the women can stay at home and see the family budget reduced.
  Les milices ont torturé et assassiné des membres de sa famille ou incendié leurs maisons. Members of his family have been tortured and murdered or have had their houses set on fire by the militias.
  Les mots «Hongrois, vous allez mourir» étaient inscrits sur les murs fraîchement repeints de la maison de la famille Sötét. The words ‘Hungarians, you will die’ were written on the freshly painted walls of the house of the Sötét family.
• proches
  Depuis ce jour, sa famille, ses proches, n'ont plus aucune nouvelle de lui. Since that day, neither his family nor his loved ones have had any news of him.
  Nous exprimons également nos condoléances à sa famille, à ses proches et au peuple irlandais. We also extend our condolences to his family and relatives and to the Irish people.
  Je voudrais exprimer mes sincères condoléances à toutes les familles qui ont perdu des proches. I would like to express my sincere condolences to all families that have lost family members.

Definition of family

• A group of people who are closely related to one another ; kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family
• An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage
• (an individual who belongs to one's family
• A group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together
• lineage, especially an honorable one
• A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank
• 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
• A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production
• A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
• Suitable for children and adults
• Conservative, traditional
• Homosexual

Examples

• Our family lives in town
• Do you have any other family?
• crime family, Mafia family
• This is my fraternity family at the university
• Our company is one big happy family
• Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae
• Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family
• the brass family; the violin family
• the Indo-European language family; the Afroasiatic language family
• The dog was kept as a family pet
• For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic
• Its not good for a date, its a family restaurant
• Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies
• The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality
• I knew he was family when I first met him

Related words

• subfamily
• superfamily
• stepfamily
• multifamily
• familyless
• antifamily
• family-phobia
• family name
• family allowance