en famille

1. 1.

   in a casual way at home

   “we'll have dinner en famille”

Questions about en famille

What does en famille mean?

en famille means "in a casual way at home".

Is en famille a common word?

en famille is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.