first family

first family

noun
1.
a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
2.
(often initial capital letters) the family of the president of the U.S. or the family of the governor of a state.
3.
a family descended from a colonist or early settler in a country, region, etc.: one of the first families of Virginia.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism
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First family is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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