association vs family

association and family both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
association	Yes	No	No	No
family	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, family is a hyponym of association; that is, family is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than association:

association (noun)	family (noun)
the act of consorting with or joining with others	primary social group; parents and children
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination	people descended from a common ancestor
a formal organization of people or groups of people	a social unit living together
(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
(chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding	a collection of things sharing a common attribute
a relation resulting from interaction or dependence	an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
a social or business relationship	a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
the state of being connected together as in memory or imagination	a person having kinship with another or others