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word families

word families is the plural of word family.

Meaning of word family

Noun

word family (plural word families)

  1. (language teaching) A set of etymologically related words consisting of a single word with its inflections and derivations, such as walk, walked, walks, walking, walkings, walker, walkers, walkies, walkable, walkathon.
    • Furthermore, the current study goes beyond previous wordlist development by contributing accompanying pedagogical lists containing word associations (i.e. collocations) and word families.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Questions about word families

What is word families the plural of?
Word families is the plural of word family.

Words near word families in the dictionary

  1. word clouds
  2. word count
  3. word counts
  4. word divider
  5. word dividers
  6. word families
  7. word family
  8. word finder
  9. word for word
  10. word form
  11. word formation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word families (page history and authors); word family (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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