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  1. n. A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children.
  2. n. A family unit consisting of all relatives living in a single household.

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  • “So she decided to talk to the three adult members of her immediate family — to Marcus Cotta and to Rutilia and to her elder half brother, Lucius Aurelius Cotta — and ask them for their candid opinions about each of the men on the list of suitors.”

    The First Man in Rome

  • “The cardiac-care unit permitted only immediate family visits, for five minutes every hour on the hour.”

    Simon & Schuster: Heart Song

  • “At its conclusion, everyone but the immediate family withdrew to a cold cuts, beer, and coffee fest at the Elks Lodge.”

    Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters

  • “He addressed all of those issues in giving his immediate family the rights to the property for their lives and a remainder interest in the property to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.”

    USA Today: Kennedy family divided over Mass. compound

  • “It’s hard to imagine that, if all members of my immediate family got struck by lightning, a cousin in a distant port could be sent a telegram saying, “You’re all he has left,” old-novel-style, and feel any moral compunction to rise to the occasion.”

    Simon & Schuster: Life As We Know It

  • “Haigh hall, near Wigan, England, a member of one of the oldest families in Lancashire; of his immediate family three of the brothers were Jesuits, and one brother was a secular priest.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

  • “Only Columba’s mother and sister, George’s mother, and our immediate family plus Paula, our housekeeper, were there.”

    Simon & Schuster: Barbara Bush

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