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EXTENDED FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does extended family mean?
• EXTENDED FAMILY (noun)
The noun EXTENDED FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives
Familiarity information: EXTENDED FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("extended family" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)
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