Family planning

Definition

family / 'fæmǝli / n ၁။ (က) [CGp] မိသားစု။ help for families on low incomes ❍ Almost every family in the country owns a television. ❍ All (the members of) my family enjoy skiing. ❍ The new tax will cost the average British family of four an extra £ 10 a week. ❍ He's a friend of the family (ie He is known and liked by the parents and their children). ❍ a family tradition ❍ the family car ❍ your family doctor. (ခ) [CGp] မိဘ သားသမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဆြမ်ဳိးရင္းခ်ာမ်ားပါေသာ မိသားစု။ All our family came to our grandfather's eightieth birthday party. ❍ the Royal Family (ie the children and close relations of the king or queen) ❍ a family-owned company ❍ a family-run hotel ❍ have no family ties. See also EXTENDED FAMILY, NUCLEAR FAMILY (ဂ) ယင္းမိသားစုအားလံုး။ a family- show ❍ family entertainment. ၂။ (က) [CGp] လင္ (သို႔) မယားႏွင့္ သားသမီးမ်ား။ prisoners and their families ❍ the victim's family and friends. (ခ) [CGp, U] သားသမီးမ်ား။ Address the letter to Mr and Mrs Jones and family. ❍ They have a large family. ၃။ (က) [CGp] အမ်ဳိးအႏြယ္။ Some families have farmed in this area for hundreds of years. ❍ She comes from a famous family. ❍ the family silver. (ခ) [U] မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စဥ္ဆက္။ မ်ဳိး႐ိုး။ a man of good family. ၄။ [C] မ်ဳိးရင္း။ Lions belong to the cat family. ❍ the Germanic family of languages. ❏ (put sb / be) in the family way [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွေအာင္ က်ဴးလြန္မိသည္။ ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွသည္။ ❏ run in the family [ IDM ] မ်ဳိး႐ိုးလိုက္သည္။ Red hair runs in his family. ❏ family credit n [U] (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) သတ္မွတ္ ဝင္ေငြေအာက္ နည္းေနသည့္ မိသားစုကို အစိုးရက ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြ။ မိသားစု ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြ။ ❏ family man n ( pl men ) အိမ္ေထာင္ရွင္ ေယာက်္ား။ ❏ family name n မိသားစုအမည္။ a surname ❍ NAME 1 ❏ family planning n [U] မိသားစု စီမံကိန္း။ (မိသားစု အတြင္း သားသမီးယူေရး၊ ယူမည့္အေရအတြက္၊ သားဆက္ျခားျခင္း စသည္)။ go along to the family planning clinic. ❏ family tree n ေဆြမ်ဳိးဆက္ဇယား။

Examples

1. A family with two children live next door.
2. Is the Watson family going to be there?
3. He grew up in a large working-class family.
4. [single-parent/two-parent family] : Single-parent families are increasingly common.
5. [a family of four/five etc] : The tent is big enough for a family of six.
6. Does your family have any history of heart disease?
7. She did not want the property to go to anyone outside the family.
8. [be in someone’s/the family] : The boatyard had been in his family for four generations.
9. We spent the holiday period visiting family in Scotland.
10. We ought to help him – after all
11. he is family.
12. [friends and family/family and friends] : We had Christmas lunch in the company of family and friends.
13. [one of the family] : He’s like one of the family.
14. The soldier had a wife and family.
15. [start/have a family] : They want to get married and start a family.
16. [bring up/raise a family] : It’s difficult raising a family on one salary.
17. Kidney beans belong to the bean family.
18. Athletic ability runs in the family: his father played basketball in college and his mother was a high school athlete.