nuclear family
nuclear family noun: the traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
Noun
nuclear family (plural nuclear families)
- The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
- The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no...2020 March, David Brooks, “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2020
- Antonyms:
- nontraditional family
nuclear family meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
nuclear family in Hindi
- a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
- परिवार parivār, एकल परिवार ekal parivār
nuclear family in Tamil
- தனிக்குடித்தனம்
nuclear family in Urdu
- a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
- خاندان
nuclear family in Kannada
- ಮೂಲ ಕುಟುಂಬ
More languagesFewer languages
- nuclear family in Indonesian
- keluarga inti, keluarga batih
- nuclear family in Vietnamese
- gia đình hạt nhân
Antonyms of nuclear family
Forms of nuclear family
| plural | nuclear families |
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Origin of nuclear family
From nuclear + family.
Questions about nuclear family
- What does nuclear family mean?
- Nuclear family means the traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
- What is nuclear family in Hindi?
- Nuclear family in Hindi is परिवार (parivār), एकल परिवार (ekal parivār). See Nuclear family meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nuclear family?
- Nuclear family is a noun.
- What is the plural of nuclear family?
- The plural of nuclear family is nuclear families.
Words near nuclear family in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuclear family (page history and authors); nuclear family (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nuclear family (Kannada 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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