extended family
a kinship group consisting of a family nucleus and various relatives, as grandparents, usually living in one household and functioning as a larger unit.: Compare immediate family, nuclear family.
(loosely) one's family conceived of as including aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, and sometimes close friends and colleagues.
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How to use extended family in a sentence
After my father’s death, our large extended family rallied around my mom, brother and me, pitching in with child care so she could attend graduate school.
What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. | Missy Ryan | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostI do not want my friends or extended family to know about this choice.
Carolyn Hax: How to make acceptance a holiday tradition | Carolyn Hax | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostI did not live by extended family when I was a child nor did I have family nearby when raising my own.
Carolyn Hax: Her husband firmly plants his flag. Does it look like a red one to her? | Carolyn Hax | January 15, 2021 | Washington PostMany people have sought out at-home DNA testing kits as a way to learn more about their ancestors and their extended family trees.
Morning Report: DNA Testing Reveals Local Fertility Fraud Cases | Voice of San Diego | January 5, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoGreg served in the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office for 27 years, and several extended family members in the past few generations have served in law enforcement.
Chase Young’s upbringing made him a ‘crazy unusual’ leader, and Washington is already following | Sam Fortier | January 1, 2021 | Washington Post
The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.
Sabrina quickly realized that none of her extended family members were planning to write back to her.
How A Muslim Dad Reacted To His Daughter Coming Out | Moral Courage | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring August and September, UNICEF had helped 700 children find a parent or extended family or placed a child in foster care.
It may not be a traditional family,” he says, “but it is an extended family.
He attempted to join his extended family in France before being turned away twice trying to get to Paris.
Refugees Head to Sicily in ‘Biblical Exodus’ | Barbie Latza Nadeau | April 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe extended family groupings in terms of matrilocal residence or centered around a sibling group are amorphous but flexible.
Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society | Robert F. MurphyIn this two-field system, land was held by peasants in units designed to support a single extended family.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. | S. A. ReillyThe family in the narrower sense, the children of one father in one house, grew into a more extended family, the gens.
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists | James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Stephen
British Dictionary definitions for extended family
sociol anthropol a social unit that contains the nuclear family together with blood relatives, often spanning three or more generations
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Cultural definitions for 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.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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