joint family

American  

noun

1. a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.

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Etymology

Origin of joint family

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

These drama kings and queens of the novel are a chameleonic joint family of disjoint motives.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

It was once inhabited by a boisterous joint family, but today, only he and his mother live there.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022

His mother later told me that she and K.’s father hoped to live there with their sons and their wives and eventual children, as a traditional Indian joint family.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

Without exception, nuclear families headed by men got the money, undermining the joint family system and the status of women, who had previously played an important role in making key economic decisions.

From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2020

Perhaps, by the end of the latter's career, they will begin to publish books in America, and the fruits of our joint family labours may be thought sufficiently matured to be laid before the world.

From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore