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May 29, 2014

Family

Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 49 v.2

      Main Definitions

  1. family 1 |n| |pl: families| a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
  2. "He comes from a family of eight children."
  3. family 2 |n| a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage: friends and family can provide support.
  4. "Only her immediate family knew she had hear disease."
  5. family 3 |n| a person or people related to one and so to be treated with a special loyalty or intimacy.
  6. "I grew up in a large family in the South."
  7. family 4 |n| a group of people who are related to each other, especially a mother, father, and their children all living together.
  8. stone family 1 |n| founding family; consider pioneer.
  9. “The Washington’s are an American Stone Family.”
  10. stone family 2  |n| a strong and solid family.


         More Relative

    1. background |n| the type of family and social class that you grew up in.
    2. "Most of his friends were from similar middle-class backgrounds."
    3. "In our class we have children of all different religious and ethnic backgrounds."
    4. "Do you know anything about her family background."
    5. family member |n| a person who belongs to a (particular) family; a (close) relative.
    6. "Friends and family member recognized that something was wrong."
    7. heraldry |n| the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies.
    8. genealogy |n| successive generations of kin.
    9. kinship |n| blood relationship.
    10. "Likewise there is no established framework of social relations, such as kinship, which people can be slotted into."
    11. 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.
    12. "They had a long and happy marriage."
    13. wedding 1 / marriage / marriage ceremony |n| the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony.
    14. “Their marriage was conducted in the chapel.”
    15. widowhood |n| the state or period of being a widow or widower.
    16. "Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood."



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