blood vs family

family vs blood

blood and family both are nouns.

blood is a verb but family is not a verb.

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

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

blood: the hereditary derivation of an individual
family: people descended from a common ancestor

Other hyponyms of blood include family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side, breed line.

blood (noun)	family (noun)
temperament or disposition	primary social group; parents and children
the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets	people descended from a common ancestor
the hereditary derivation of an individual	a social unit living together
people viewed as members of a group	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
a dissolute man in fashionable society	a collection of things sharing a common attribute
	an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
	a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
	a person having kinship with another or others

blood (verb)	family (verb)
smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

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