- connected with the family or a particular family
- family life
- The job was starting to affect his family life.
- your family background
- Only close family members called her ‘Sally’.
- a family friend (= a friend of the whole family)
- family ties/connections
- It's a family tradition.
- She has become interested in her family history.
- He has a family history of heart disease.
Extra Examples- Do you know anything about her family background?
- The job wouldn't really fit in with my family commitments.
- In 1941 he carried on the family tradition and enlisted in the army.
- They prefer to stay in their home country because of family ties.
- a family history of heart disease
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- owned by a family
- They had to sell the family home.
- a family business
- the family car
- She had to sell the family jewels in order to pay off her gambling debts.
- suitable for all members of a family, both adults and children
- a family show
- family entertainment
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3); also denoting the servants of a household or the retinue of a nobleman): from Latin familia ‘household servants, family’, from famulus ‘servant’.
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