Multigenerational kinship network of parents, children, and more distant relatives, sometimes living together in an extended-family household. (301, 528)
A family including not only parents and children, but also grandparents and other relations.
A family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household.
Expanded household including three or more generations.
Relatives of a child's, other than parents, such as aunts, uncles, grandparents, and sometimes close family friends.
A family that includes three or more generations. Normally, that would include grandparents, their sons or daughters, and their children, as opposed to a "nuclear family," which is only a married couple and their offspring.
a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives
A child's relatives (other than parents) such as aunts, uncles, grandparents, and sometimes even close friends.
Several generation of basic family units, related by descent, marriage or adoption and living together; a household group which includes kin outside of the nuclear family.
The set of all of a PowerAda compilation unit's supporters and all of their families, including the associated bodies and subunits. (The supporters of a unit include only the library units required for its compilation, not the associated bodies or subunits.) The extended family of a main subprogram includes exactly those units needed to bind a program from that subprogram.
a family that is a big, three- or four-generation clan, headed by a patriarch or perhaps a matriarch, and encompassing everyone form the youngest infant to the oldest grandparent. (p. 662)
The nuclear family plus relatives such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Extended family (or joint family) is a term with several distinct meanings. First, it is used synonymously with consanguineous family. Second, in societies dominated by the conjugal family, it is used to refer to kindred who does not belong to the conjugal family.