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The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nontraditional family
a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: conjugal family
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: family, household, house, home, menage
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
gesin
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Chinese Mandarin:
核心家庭
(héxīn jiātíng)
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Danish:
kernefamilie
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Dutch:
kerngezin
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Finnish:
ydinperhe
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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French:
famille nucléaire
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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German:
Kernfamilie
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Hindi:
परिवार
(parivār)
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Hindi:
एकल परिवार
(ekal parivār)
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Icelandic:
kjarnafjölskylda
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Indonesian:
keluarga inti
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Indonesian:
keluarga batih
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Japanese:
核家族
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Korean:
핵가족
(haekgajok)
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Marshallese:
baam̧le
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Norwegian Bokmål:
kjernefamilie
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
kjernefamilie
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Polish:
rodzina nuklearna
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Portuguese:
família nuclear
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Romanian:
familie nucleară
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Russian:
нуклеа́рная семья́
(nukleárnaja semʹjá)
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Spanish:
familia nuclear
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Swedish:
kärnfamilj
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Turkish:
çekirdek aile
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Urdu:
خاندان
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Vietnamese:
gia đình hạt nhân
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children
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Welsh:
teulu cnewyllol
— a family unit consisting of a father, mother and children