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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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Noun

(en noun)

A household, or family.

* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:

whan they in the castell wyste how Sir Palomydes had sped, there was a joyfull mayné .

(archaic, or, historical) A retinue.

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That, for the tirant is of gretter myght, / By force of meynee', for to sleen dounright, / And brennen hous and hoom, and make al playn, / Lo, therfore is he cleped a capitayn; / And for the outlawe hath but smal ' meynee , / And may nat doon so greet an harm as he, / Ne brynge a contree to so greet mescheef, / Men clepen hym an outlawe or a theef.

* 1965 , Jack Robert Lander, The Wars of the Roses ,

And in the evening they went with their simple captain to his lodging; but a certain of his simple and rude meinie abode there all the night [...].

A crowd of people; a rabble.

* 1608 , , The Tragedy of Coriolanus :

For the mutable ranke-sented Meynie , / Let them regard me, as I doe not flatter, / And therein behold themselues [...].