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family, kinsperson

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

kindred, clan, tribe, kin group, kinship group

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

cognate, akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineous

adj. related by blood

kin, kindred, clan, tribe, kin group, kinship group

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

people, family, relatives

n. members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"

folk, family, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry, family line

n. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

family, family unit

n. primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

posterity, descendants

n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

return, take, yield, issue, bottom line, payoff, proceeds, takings

n. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"

dealings, relations

n. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

domestic, domestic help, house servant

n. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

place, home

n. where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"

house, family, household, menage, ménage

n. 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"

people, family, relatives

n. members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"

kin, family, kinsperson

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

folk, family, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry, family line

n. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

blood, descent, line, stock, ancestry, lineage, origin, pedigree, bloodline, parentage, line of descent, blood line

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

house

n. aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

house, family, household, menage, ménage

n. 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"

camp, pack, clique, coterie, in-group, ingroup, inner circle

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

gang, ring, pack, mob

n. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

gang, bunch, crowd, crew

n. an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

group, grouping

n. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

mass, people, multitude, masses, hoi polloi

n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

people

n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

race

n. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

dynasty

n. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

affinal

adj. (anthropology) related by marriage

agnate, paternal, agnatic

adj. related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt"

allied

adj. related by common characteristics or ancestry; "allied species"; "allied studies"

enate, maternal, enatic

adj. related on the mother's side; "my maternal grandmother"

kindred

adj. related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"

unrelated

adj. not connected by kinship

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