A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption)
noun
(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
(countable) 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.
(countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
(countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
(countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
(set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
fleamy
fleamy
adj
(obsolete, dialect) bloody; clotted
flyman
flyman
noun
(UK, historical) Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly.
(theater) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
infamy
infamy
noun
(law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.
A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
The state of being infamous.
The state of having a reputation as being evil.
madefy
madefy
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To make wet or moist. [15th—18th centuries]
manify
manify
verb
(transitive) To make male or manly.
mayfly
mayfly
noun
Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
milfay
ramify
ramify
verb
(figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
(transitive, intransitive) To divide into branches or subdivisions.