nuclear family

1. 1.

   a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner

   Synonymsconjugal family

   Broaderfamily

Questions about nuclear family

What does nuclear family mean?

nuclear family means "a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner".

What is another word for nuclear family?

Close synonyms include conjugal family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuclear family a common word?

nuclear 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.