family vs declension

declension vs family

family and declension both are nouns.

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

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

family: a collection of things sharing a common attribute
declension: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

Other hyponyms of family include grammatical category, syntactic category, paradigm, substitution class, brass family, violin family, woodwind family, stamp, sex, conjugation, denomination, histocompatibility complex, weight class.

family (noun)	declension (noun)
primary social group; parents and children	a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
people descended from a common ancestor	a downward slope or bend
a social unit living together	process of changing to an inferior state
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera	the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
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

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