large family
Crowded holiday table
A large family is a household with many children, though the threshold varies by era and culture—what counted as normal in 1900 seems large today.
The term often carries connotations of either blessing or burden depending on context: She grew up in a large family with seven siblings.
Catholic and Mormon communities are stereotypically associated with large families.
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- childrenYoung human beings
- siblingsFellow offspring
- sibling rivalryCompetition between children sharing parents
- generationsPeople born around same time
crowded · noisy · dinner table · Sunday dinner · hand-me-downs · minivan · station wagon · chaos · cousins · gatherings · bunk beds · meal planning · holidays · patriarch · matriarch · reunion · extended · clan
- family structuresstepfamily, single parent, married couple, multigenerational, childless couple
- household typessingle person, couple, multigenerational, empty nesters, roommates
- family lifebirth, kinship, childbirth, pregnancy, new baby
- familiesstepfamily, married couple, parents, children, siblings
- natalitybirth rate, birthrate, fertility rate, live births, natality
large familyonly child
Person without siblings
childless couple · nuclear family · empty nest · singleton · single child
large, larger, largest, largely, largeness, largesse, enlarge, enlargement, enlarger