Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nuclear_family

1 sense of nuclear family

Sense 1
nuclear family, conjugal family -- (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)
       => family, household, house, home, menage -- (a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home")