extended family

1. 1.

   a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

   Broaderfamily

Questions about extended family

What does extended family mean?

extended family means "a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives".

Is extended family a common word?

extended family 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.