extended family

英：[iksˈtendid ˈfæmili]

美：[ɪkˈstɛndɪd ˈfæməli]

noun

a family that includes in one household near relatives (such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) in addition to a nuclear familyalso: an extensive group of people who are related by blood or marriage or who otherwise regard themselves as a large family Four out of every five people who go through a first divorce remarry … . Thus it is that husbands and wives, their former partners, children and stepchildren, and a whole constellation of grandparents and other relatives are brought together in the new American extended family. —Michael Norman During his five years at Owen High, he turned his teams into an extended family and tried to instill in his players the same sense of self-worth that Baldwin had imparted to him years before. —William Nack

Given space, there are ways in which even larger populations than the extended family can be accommodated under one roof.—Paul Oliver

The first known use of extended family was circa 1935

face-off1 of 2noun

a method of putting a puck in play in ice hockey by dropping it between two opposing players

a meeting of opposing forces : confrontation

face off2 of 2verb

to be in or come into opposition or competition

politicians facing off each other in a debate

face-liftnoun

plastic surgery on the face and neck to remove defects and imperfections (as wrinkles or sagging skin)

an alteration, restoration, or remodeling (as of a building) intended especially to make more modern

face cardnoun

a king, queen, or jack in a deck of cards

fnoun

the sixth letter of the English alphabet

a musical note referred to by the letter F : the fourth tone of a C-major scale

a grade rating a student's work as failing

fnoun

the sixth letter of the English alphabet

a musical note referred to by the letter F : the fourth tone of a C-major scale

a grade rating a student's work as failing

eye contactnoun

the act of looking another person straight in the eye

extra pointnoun

a point scored in football after a touchdown by kicking the ball between the goalposts or advancing it a short distance into the end zone

external-combustion enginenoun

a heat engine (as a steam engine) that gets its heat from fuel burned outside the engine cylinder

exterior anglenoun

any of the four angles formed by a line cutting across two other lines and located on the outside of those lines

extended familynoun

a family that includes parents and children and other relatives (as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) in the same household

extended familynoun

a family that includes in one household near relatives in addition to a nuclear family