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extended family
[ik-sten-did fam-uh-lee, fam lee]
noun
a kinship group consisting of a family nucleus and various relatives, as grandparents, usually living in one household and functioning as a larger unit.
(loosely) one's family conceived of as including aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, and sometimes close friends and colleagues.
extended family
noun
sociol anthropol a social unit that contains the nuclear family together with blood relatives, often spanning three or more generations
extended family
A type of family in which relatives in addition to parents and children (such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins) live in a single household. A nuclear family forms the core of an extended family.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of extended family1
Example Sentences
Her extended family includes immigrants from Korea, Japan and the Philippines.
And while moving on is healthy, breakups are rough, especially when there are extended families, wider friend groups and professional networks affected in the fallout.
According to the counterclaim, the former employees had “stayed with the Robinsons year after year,” “vacationed together” with the singer’s wife and were treated “as extended family.”
He moved part time to Utah, to be closer to his extended family.
Where Santos is from in São Paulo, Brazil's largest and wealthiest city, many of her neighbours were members of the same extended family originally from Serrinha.
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