Family vs. Relative
Family and Relative Definitions
Family
A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.
Relative
Considered in comparison or relation to something else
An animal with a large brain relative to body size.
The relative quiet of the suburbs.
Family
The children of one of these groups
She raised a large family.
Relative
Having pertinence or relevance; connected or related
How are those remarks relative to the discussion?.
Family
A group of persons related by descent or marriage
My whole family, including my cousins, gets together once a year. See Usage Note at collective noun.
Relative
(Grammar) Referring to or qualifying an antecedent, as the pronoun who in the man who was on TV or that in the dictionary that I use.
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Family
People in the same line of descent; lineage
Comes from an old Virginia family.
Relative
(Music) Having the same key signature. Used of major and minor scales and keys
A minor is the relative minor of C major.
Family
(Obsolete) All the members of a household living under one roof.
Relative
A person related to another by heredity, adoption, or marriage.
Family
A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.
Relative
A species or other taxon that shares a common ancestor, usually a relatively recent ancestor, with another
The jaguar is a relative of the lion.
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Family
A group of like things; a class
The family of brass instruments.
Relative
(Grammar) A relative pronoun.
Family
A group of individuals derived from a common stock
The family of human beings.
Relative
Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
Family
(Biology) A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.
Relative
Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
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Family
(Linguistics) A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.
Relative
(grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
The words “big” and “small” are relative.
Family
(Mathematics) A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.
Relative
(music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
Family
A group of elements with similar chemical properties.
Relative
Relevant; pertinent; related.
Relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
Family
A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.
Relative
Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
Family
(Physics) Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.
Relative
Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.
Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
Family
Of or having to do with a family
Family problems.
Relative
(linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
Family
Being suitable for a family
Family movies.
Relative
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
I'll have groundsMore relative than this.
Family
(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.
This is a family restaurant, stop making out!
Relative
Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part of the universe, and so stands in such a relations to the whole.
Family
(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
Relative
Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
Family
(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.
We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
Relative
Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
Family
(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
I have a lot of family in Australia.
He has a sister, but no other family.
Relative
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
Family
(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
This is my fraternity family at the university.
Our company is one big happy family.
Relative
A person related by blood or marriage;
Police are searching for relatives of the deceased
He has distant relations back in New Jersey
Family
(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
Relative
An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
Family
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
Relative
Not absolute or complete;
A relative stranger
Family
(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.
Relative
Properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to';
Punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime
Earnings relative to production
Family
A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
Let be a family of subsets over .
Family
A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
The brass family;
The violin family
Family
A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
The Indo-European language family;
The Afroasiatic language family
Family
Suitable for children and adults.
It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
Family
(slang) Homosexual.
I knew he was family when I first met him.
Family
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.
Family
The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society.
Family
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.
Go ! and pretend your family is young.
Family
Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
Family
Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
Family
A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
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.
Family
A social unit living together;
He moved his family to Virginia
It was a good Christian household
I waited until the whole house was asleep
The teacher asked how many people made up his home
Family
Primary social group; parents and children;
He wanted to have a good job before starting a family
Family
People descended from a common ancestor;
His family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
Family
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Family
An association of people who share common beliefs or activities;
The message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family
The church welcomed new members into its fellowship
Family
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;
Sharks belong to the fish family
Family
A person having kinship with another or others;
He's kin
He's family
Family
A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
