Dictionary

first family en · NOUN

Etymology

An appellativization of First Family.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:generic) A nuclear family that is or was a First Family, when speaking non-specifically.
2. A family of great importance or influence.
   • They walked up the Fifth Avenue, where, for instance, he had told them that all the first families lived. But the first families were out of town, and our young travelers had only the satisfaction of seeing some of the second—or perhaps even the third—taking the evening air upon balconies and high flights of doorsteps, in the streets which radiate from the more ornamental thoroughfare. 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:

Forms

Coordinates

First Gentleman · first lady · First Family · First Lady · first gentleman · Second Family · second family