Phratry
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
Family
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Suitable for children and adults.Conservative, traditonal.Homosexual.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A father, mother and their sons and daughters; also called nuclear family.A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.A kin, tribe; also called extended family.A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.A group of people who live together.A group of people similar to related by blood, marriage, law, or custom.Collectively, people who are members of one's intimate social group.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.A group of instrument having the same basic method of tone production.A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Example sentence: Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.