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NUCLEAR FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
Synonyms:
conjugal family; nuclear family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("nuclear family" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)