Definition of "families" []

• Plural form of family. (noun)

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• "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton August 5 expressing sorrow over the Israeli government\'s August 2 eviction of two Palestinian families from East Jerusalem, and asked Clinton and the Obama administration to call for the families\ 'immediate return.'"
• "The County Surveyor gives the population of Mayo at 56,209 families, _of whom 46,316 families_, he says, _were to be employed on the relief works!"
• "And I guess what I appreciate about storytelling in families is it's ... it's elemental."