families

noun

1
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
“Our family lives in town.”
2
An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
“1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America”
3
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
“Our company is one big happy family.”
4
Lineage, especially an honorable one
5
A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
“Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.”
6
Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
“Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.”
7
A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
“the brass family; the violin family”
8
A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
“the Indo-European language family; the Afroasiatic language family”
9
Used attributively.
“For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.”