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NUCLEAR FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nuclear family mean?
• NUCLEAR FAMILY (noun)
The noun NUCLEAR FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
Familiarity information: NUCLEAR FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
conjugal family; nuclear family
Hypernyms ("nuclear family" is a kind of...):
family; home; house; household; menage (a social unit living together)
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