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(lb) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood or marriage); for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

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(lb) An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

*1915', William T. Groves, ''A History and Genealogy of the Groves '''Family in America

(lb) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

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A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

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(lb) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

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A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

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A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)

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Noun

(wikipedia institution) (en noun)

An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.

The building which houses such an organisation.

A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.

(informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.

The act of instituting.

(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.

There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.