Fâm'i-ly, n.

n. [Lat., Sp., & Pg. familia, from Lat. famulus, servant; Fr. familie, Pr. familia, It. famiglia.]

1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be; lodgers or boarders.
2. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; as, the human family; the family of Abraham.
3. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Go, and complain thy family is young. Pope.

4. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
5. A group of kindred individuals, usually more comprehensive than a genus, and founded on more indefinite resemblances; as, a family of plants, of animals, or of languages.