Nuclear Family (Noun)
Meaning
A family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- A traditional nuclear family usually includes a set of parents and their dependent children, and may also involve grandparents of a marital partner.
- Her family welcomed her husband's mother to live with them, thereby including a grandparent in their nuclear family.
- He never really understood what a complete nuclear family felt like since his parents had divorced when he was a kid.
- His idea of a nuclear family consists of him, his wife, and two children, as well as his wife's mother who they took care of.
- When they decided to start a family, they thought they'd form a perfect nuclear family, just like the ones they'd read about in their favorite books.