| NOUN | group | family unit, family | primary social group |
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| Meaning | primary social group; parents and children. | |
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| Synonym | family | |
| Instances | Bronte sisters | A 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels |
| Marx Brothers | A family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor | |
| Members | child, kid | A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age |
| parent | A father or mother | |
| sibling, sib | A person's brother or sister | |
| Narrower | couple, mates, match | A pair of people who live together |
| marriage, married couple, man and wife | Two people who are married to each other | |
| Broader | kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage |
| Spanish | familia, unidad familiar | |
| Catalan | família, unitat familiar | |
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