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family circles

family circles is the plural of family circle.

Meaning of family circle

Noun

family circle (plural family circles)

  1. A gallery in a theater, generally one containing inexpensive seats.
  2. The social circle comprising one's family.
    • As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

Questions about family circles

What is family circles the plural of?
Family circles is the plural of family circle.

Words near family circles in the dictionary

  1. family car
  2. family cars
  3. family celebrant
  4. family celebrants
  5. family circle
  6. family circles
  7. family court
  8. family courts
  9. Family Day
  10. family doctor
  11. family doctors

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