Definitions for families
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1. families(Noun)

   Plural form of family.

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1. Families

   of Family

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1. Families

   Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England, and the Stevens, living in Sydney, Australia. It was produced and recorded at Studio 6 at Granada Studios in Manchester. The link in the storyline was businessman Mike Thompson, who walked out on his family on his birthday and flew to Australia to be with his true love Diana Stevens, whom he had left years earlier. Unbeknownst to Mike, Diana had given birth to his son Andrew and as complications ensued over the abrupt life changes for both families, Andrew travelled to England, where he met Mike’s daughter, Amanda, by his English wife Sue, and they fell in love, not realising that they were half-brother and sister. This plot line was somewhat similar to the opening storyline of the popular Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters which had successfully aired on ITV daytime since 1983. It was broadcast twice a week at 3.20pm with the first episode broadcast on 23 April 1990. Both episodes were also repeated on Thursday 10.40pm in the Granada TV region as part of Granada's "10.40-extra" strand. After two years, stories involving the Thompson and Stevens families—and the UK-Australian crossover angle—had run their course, with several characters either dead or left for pastures new. In their place came the wealthy Bannerman family, who were introduced during the summer of 1992, as they moved into the Thompsons' Cheshire mansion from a suburb of Manchester. In addition, some of the remaining Australian-based characters were re-located to England.

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1. families

   Song lyrics by families -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by families on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'families' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1235

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'families' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1558

How to pronounce families?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say families in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of families in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of families in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of families in a Sentence

1. Susan Collins:

   The first major overhaul of our tax code since 1986, this legislation will provide tax relief to working families, encourage the creation of jobs right here in America and spur economic growth that will benefit all Americans.

2. Executive Director Peter Pedemonti:

   In Philadelphia, there is a continued wave of support for faith communities to stand up and say that deporting people and separating families is a violation of our faith values.

3. Judge Inez Cardinal:

   Families have been torn apart because of the loss, they are prone to depression, anxiety or outbursts.

4. Ben Cavender:

   The people who moved away were families and kids, these guys aren't coming back.

5. Michael Bay:

   I let film directors make their movies at Platinum Dunes [Bay's production company] and give them tremendous responsibilities, well, unfortunately a very bad choice was made to use a real crash instead of creating a VFX shot, without realizing the impact it could have on the families.

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