Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 49 v.2
Main Definitions
- family 1 |n| |pl: families| a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
- "He comes from a family of eight children."
- family 2 |n| a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage: friends and family can provide support.
- "Only her immediate family knew she had hear disease."
- family 3 |n| a person or people related to one and so to be treated with a special loyalty or intimacy.
- "I grew up in a large family in the South."
- family 4 |n| a group of people who are related to each other, especially a mother, father, and their children all living together.
- stone family 1 |n| founding family; consider pioneer.
- “The Washington’s are an American Stone Family.”
- stone family 2 |n| a strong and solid family.
More Relative
- background |n| the type of family and social class that you grew up in.
- "Most of his friends were from similar middle-class backgrounds."
- "In our class we have children of all different religious and ethnic backgrounds."
- "Do you know anything about her family background."
- family member |n| a person who belongs to a (particular) family; a (close) relative.
- "Friends and family member recognized that something was wrong."
- heraldry |n| the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies.
- genealogy |n| successive generations of kin.
- kinship |n| blood relationship.
- "Likewise there is no established framework of social relations, such as kinship, which people can be slotted into."
- marriage / matrimony / union / spousal relationship / wedlock |n| a legally accepted relationship between a woman and a man in which they live as husband and wife, or the official ceremony which results in this.
- "They had a long and happy marriage."
- wedding 1 / marriage / marriage ceremony |n| the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony.
- “Their marriage was conducted in the chapel.”
- widowhood |n| the state or period of being a widow or widower.
- "Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood."
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