family vs blood

blood vs family

family and blood both are nouns.

family is not a verb while blood is a verb.

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

As nouns, blood is a hypernym of family; that is, blood is a word with a broader meaning than family:

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

Other hypernyms of family include ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.

family (noun)	blood (noun)
primary social group; parents and children	temperament or disposition
people descended from a common ancestor	the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
a social unit living together	the hereditary derivation of an individual
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera	people viewed as members of a group
a collection of things sharing a common attribute	a dissolute man in fashionable society
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

family (verb)	blood (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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