Definition of "extended family" []

• A family group that consists of parents, children, and other close relatives, often living in close proximity. (noun)
• A group of relatives, such as those of three generations, who live in close geographic proximity rather than under the same roof. (noun)

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• "My personal history with Chinatowns begins here, where we have wedding banquets, christenings, grocery shopping, daily life with my extended family of aunts, cousins, great-uncles, fake-uncles."
• "Anyway, old grievances gave way to a habit of cooperation, and here we are, a twenty-first century extended family where the favorite aunt is an ex-wife or the guy fixing the waterheater is an ex-husband."
• "Then there were the Barsham Fairs and the Waveney Clarion, the community newspaper of the Waveney Valley, which I helped write, plan and distribute, as a whole extended family of us quasi-hippies did, from Diss to Bungay to Beccles to Lowestoft."