family vs denomination

denomination vs family

family and denomination both are nouns.

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

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

family: a collection of things sharing a common attribute
denomination: a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money

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

family (noun)	denomination (noun)
primary social group; parents and children	identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
people descended from a common ancestor	a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
a social unit living together	a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
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

Difference between family and denomination

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