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family-sized

family-sized adjective: large enough for an entire family.

Adjective

family-sized (comparative more family-sized, superlative most family-sized)

  1. Large enough for an entire family.
    • Zoe listened as the woman she refused to call ‘Mum’ trudged back to the kitchen, no doubt to rip open another family-sized bag of prawn cocktail crisps to fill her face with.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Forms of family-sized

comparativemore family-sized
superlativemost family-sized

Questions about family-sized

What does family-sized mean?
Family-sized means large enough for an entire family.
What part of speech is family-sized?
Family-sized is an adjective.

Words near family-sized in the dictionary

  1. family wages
  2. family woman
  3. family-friendliness
  4. family-friendly
  5. family-run
  6. family-sized
  7. family-style
  8. family-valuer
  9. family-valuers
  10. familygram
  11. familygrams

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