grammatical category vs family

family vs grammatical category

grammatical category and family both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grammatical category	Yes	No	No	No
family	Yes	No	No	No

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

grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
family: a collection of things sharing a common attribute

Other hypernyms of grammatical category include category, class.

grammatical category (noun)	family (noun)
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties	primary social group; parents and children
	people descended from a common ancestor
	a social unit living together
	(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 grammatical category and family

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