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extended family
noun as in parents, children, and relatives
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Example Sentences
Their analysis reveals that members related to a child's extended family have likely played a greater role in transmitting knowledge to children than previously thought.
They had a big house with a swimming pool and often used to entertain their extended family during the summer holidays.
He is survived by his wife, Linda, four children, seven grandchildren and extended family.
Nigerian farmer Mustapha Majiya is still reeling from losing almost 50 members of his extended family this week after an overturned fuel tanker exploded, sending flames up into a night sky.
A neighbour found it “unusual” that Sara was the only member of her large extended family that lived at the address to be dressed in a hijab, the Old Bailey heard.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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