{
  "id": "family.social",
  "term": "family",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A set of people who stay in a home and like each other.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "people.social",
      "home.shelter",
      "persist.continue",
      "like.similarity"
    ],
    "interaction": "People stay together in a home and like each other, thereby forming a grouped set.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared identity",
      "mutual responsibility",
      "legal kinship"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Kardashian family appeared together in 20 seasons of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' on Hulu.",
      "domain": "media"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Murugappa family has operated 29 businesses in India since 1900, including Carborundum Universal and EID Parry.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars family lived at 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., for 40 years while running the Mars candy company.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "children.human",
    "women.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "families",
    "family"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-family.social"
}