| NOUN | group | menage, family, household, house, home | a social unit living together |
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| Meaning | A social unit living together. | |
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| Synonyms | family, household, house, home | |
| Narrower | broken home | A family in which the parents have separated or divorced |
| extended family | A family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives | |
| foster family | The family of a fosterling | |
| foster home | A household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) | |
| menage a trois | household for three | |
| nuclear family, conjugal family | A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner | |
| Broader | unit, social unit | An organization regarded as part of a larger / larger social group |
| Spanish | casa, familia, hogar, menaje | |
| Catalan | casa, família, llar | |
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