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Family

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

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Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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Aggregation 76% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Ancestry 76% connected

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Association 76% connected

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

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Blood 76% connected

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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Clan 76% connected

A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan…

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Descent 76% connected

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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kin 76% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Kindred 76% connected

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Lineage 76% connected

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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Origin 76% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Parentage 76% connected

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…

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Pedigree 76% connected

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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Relation 76% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Relative 76% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Stemma 76% connected

One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

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Stock 76% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Tribe 76% connected

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, desc…

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Affine 76% connected

To refine.

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Conjugation 76% connected

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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Declension 76% connected

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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Denomination 76% connected

The act of naming or designating.

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Dynasty 76% connected

Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.

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Gens 76% connected

A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of…

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Marriage 76% connected

The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Paradigm 76% connected

An example; a model; a pattern.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Child 70% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Genus 70% connected

A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; on…

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Kid 70% connected

A young goat.

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Parent 70% connected

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.

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Sib 70% connected

A blood relation.

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Subfamily 70% connected

One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.

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Tribe 70% connected

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, desc…

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Containing group 1

Order 70% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Synonym 14

Category 92% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Class 92% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Fellowship 92% connected

The state or relation of being or associate.

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Folk 92% connected

Alt. of Folks

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Home 92% connected

See Homelyn.

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House 92% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Household 92% connected

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

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kin 92% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

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Kinsfolk 92% connected

Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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Menage 92% connected

See Manage.

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Mob 92% connected

A mobcap.

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Phratry 92% connected

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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Sept 92% connected

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

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Syndicate 92% connected

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.

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