FAMILY CIRCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family circle mean? 

• FAMILY CIRCLE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CIRCLE has 1 sense:

1. rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CIRCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CIRCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

family circle; peanut gallery; second balcony; upper balcony

Hypernyms ("family circle" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Holonyms ("family circle" is a part of...):

balcony (an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium)

 Context examples 

His going, though only eight miles, will be an unwelcome contraction of our family circle; but I should have been deeply mortified if any son of mine could reconcile himself to doing less.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The peace turned him on shore at the very moment, and he has been living with us, in our little family circle, ever since.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He wouldn’t have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These parties were acceptable to all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did think, than such as did not.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The family circle became greatly contracted; and though the Miss Bertrams had latterly added little to its gaiety, they could not but be missed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Neither you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you admitted him into your family circle.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was no more than the principals were prepared for; they had calculated from the time of its being known at Randalls, how soon it would be over Highbury; and were thinking of themselves, as the evening wonder in many a family circle, with great sagacity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I think he values the very quietness you speak of, and that the repose of his own family circle is all he wants.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)