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extended family

[ ik-sten-did fam-uh-lee, fam lee ]

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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. Compare immediate family ( def ), nuclear family ( def ).
(loosely) one's family conceived of as including aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, and sometimes close friends and colleagues.

extended family

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.

First recorded in 1940–45

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.

During 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.

The extended family groupings in terms of matrilocal residence or centered around a sibling group are amorphous but flexible.

In this two-field system, land was held by peasants in units designed to support a single extended family.

The family in the narrower sense, the children of one father in one house, grew into a more extended family, the gens.

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