The youngest member of an immediate family. / A member of an immediate family who behaves as, or is treated as though they were the youngest member of a family.

A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, jewels. / (idiomatic, euphemistic) Testicles.

(sociology) The family in which an individual grows up.

(sociology) A family that is formed when a couple have their first child.

A stepfamily in which both new mates have one or more living children from prior partners.

Birth control, especially when carried out by monogamous heterosexual couples.

(Britain, Ireland) In Britain and Ireland, a family of the landed gentry.

plural of family restaurant

An eating establishment that serves relatively simple food at reasonable prices, and welcomes children as well as adults.