extended family

as in household
those who live as a family in one house their extended family includes a grandmother and widowed aunt

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Recent Examples of extended family For roughly two decades, Madea and her extended family have appeared in over a dozen films and numerous TV series. Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025 Friends and extended family could make contributions as birthday gifts. Sarah Keohane Williamson, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 My story has been amplified a thousandfold through the witness of my extended family — lessons lived and shared across generations. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2025 Among the names on that banner are those of five members of my own extended family: Gabriel Carpenter, Charles Carpenter, Thomas Skelliter, Samuel Skelliter and Doris Carpenter. Tanya Talaga july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for extended family
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Noun
  • That's because the current system depends on unrealistic levels of sorting at the household level.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The Census Bureau administers the CPS or household survey to 60,000 households.
    Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Going directly from cooking inside the house and only trying my own food to trying small restaurants and traveling within a week’s span was a blessing.
    Kenneth J. Williams Jr, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Another acquaintance confirmed rumors that the two, at least until recently, were living in a house in Bloomfield — a house that had McCrory for Senate signs in the front yard when featured on an internet real estate site.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Extended family.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extended%20family. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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