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extended family

NOUN
  1. a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

How To Use extended family In A Sentence

  • It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
  • The authority of the father was absolute, as the head of a hierarchy arranged by generation, age and sex, in which every member of the extended family was related in rank to every other.
  • However, despite these similarities, the political significance of the extended family was not uniform throughout Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • But the most important thing is that he totally blends in with the entire extended family. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sam instantly dislikes the man and sees him for a worthless, no-good bounder, but Ellen is blinded by her need to be part of an extended family unit.
  • Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
  • An extended family tree will grow to include many distant cousins.
  • But the most important thing is that he totally blends in with the entire extended family. Times, Sunday Times
  • So she is unable to play with friends or join in the fun with extended family. The Sun
  • The 23 members of his extended family climbed onto a truck taking onions to market in Peshawar, he said.
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