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extended family

extended family noun: a family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.

Noun

extended family (plural extended families)

  1. A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
    • Angaran females typically give birth to several young who require support and supervision, resulting in large extended families that become accustomed to living and working together.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: Biology Codex entry
    • The old men nap on couches, waiting for dessert. It’s the extended family in all its tangled, loving, exhausting glory.2020 February 10, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    whanau

extended family meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Vietnamese

extended family in Hindi

family with additional members
संयुक्त परिवार sãyukt parivār

extended family in Tamil

விரிவுபட்ட குடும்பம்

extended family in Vietnamese

family with additional members
gia đình mở rộng

Synonyms of extended family

Forms of extended family

pluralextended families

Questions about extended family

What does extended family mean?
Extended family means a family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
What is extended family in Hindi?
Extended family in Hindi is संयुक्त परिवार (sãyukt parivār). See Extended family meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is extended family?
Extended family is a noun.
What is the plural of extended family?
The plural of extended family is extended families.

Words near extended family in the dictionary

  1. extended cab
  2. extended cabs
  3. extended definition
  4. extended Euclidean algorithm
  5. extended families
  6. extended family
  7. extended household
  8. extended households
  9. extended keyboard
  10. extended keyboards
  11. extended memory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extended family (page history and authors); extended family (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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