In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption.

In a classification context, a family is a taxonomic group containing one or more genera.

Family is a group of of people consisting a mother and father and their offspring. This a circle of important people in our lives that we treasure the most.But sometimes it depends upon the person on how he/she sees this word, sometimes family may define as group of people who are providing care and love for us not considering if they are your biological family or not.