extended family

Noun

Meaning

a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

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The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. Gertrude Stein

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Tom Stoppard

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. Patricia Hill Collins

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books. Connie Nielsen

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family. Julius Erving

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