Family vs. Household — What's the Difference?

In human society, family (from Latin: familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of families is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society.

A household consists of one or several persons who live in the same dwelling and share meals. It may also consist of a single family or another group of people.

A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or two parents and their children.

A domestic unit consisting of the members of a family who live together along with nonrelatives such as servants.

The children of one of these groups

The living spaces and possessions belonging to such a unit.

A group of persons related by descent or marriage

A person or group of people occupying a single dwelling

People in the same line of descent; lineage

Of, relating to, or used in a household

(Obsolete) All the members of a household living under one roof.

Commonly known; familiar

A locally independent organized crime unit, as of the Cosa Nostra.

Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.

A group of like things; a class

(obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.

A group of individuals derived from a common stock

Belonging to the same house and family.

(Biology) A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus. A family usually consists of several genera.

Found in or having its origin in a home.

(Linguistics) A group of languages descended from the same parent language, such as the Indo-European language family.

Widely known to the public; familiar.

(Mathematics) A set of functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a general equation.

Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

A group of elements with similar chemical properties.

A line of ancestory; a race or house.

A vertical column in the periodic table of elements.

Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.

(Physics) Any of the three generations of elementary fermions.

A social unit living together;

Of or having to do with a family

Being suitable for a family

(countable) A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

(countable) An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

(uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.

(countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

(uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

(countable) Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.

A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Suitable for children and adults.

(slang) Homosexual.

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.

A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In Zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.

A social unit living together;

Primary social group; parents and children;

People descended from a common ancestor;

A collection of things sharing a common attribute;

An association of people who share common beliefs or activities;

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;

A person having kinship with another or others;

A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities