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family

Learn how to correctly hyphenate "family" with detailed syllable breakdown and pronunciation guide.

3 syllables
6 characters
English (US)
3syllables

family

Hyphenation via the Knuth-Liang algorithm — result not verified against authoritative sources.

family is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, family is hyphenated as:

Definitions offamily

1noun
  • 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.

    Example: "Our family lives in town."

  • An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

    Example: "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.

    Example: "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.

    Example: "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.

    Example: "Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family."

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

    Example: "the brass family;  the violin family"

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

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

  • Used attributively.

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

1adjective
  • Suitable for children and adults.

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

  • Conservative, traditional.

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

  • Homosexual.

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

1noun
  • A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

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