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家族 — meaning in English

kazoku

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English meaning

  • familial adjective Relating to a family, or passed down within one.
  • family noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  • people noun Human beings in general, or the men, women and children of a particular group, place or nation.

Senses

家族 is used for these senses in English:

  • familial Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
  • family A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
  • family (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
  • family (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
  • people A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

family — full definition

  1. noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  2. noun A group of related things classified together, such as a category in biology or a set of related languages.
  3. adjective Suitable for both children and adults.

Related Japanese words