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. The Haines Volunteer Fire Department:

   The Canadian authorities will make arrangements to transport the deceased back home to the United States, our prayers are with all members of their families and (our) hearts are broken in their loss.

2. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   It's important and so good that the Republican Party has candidates running for president like John Kasich, who's father was a mailman, and my father, who was a bartender, and others who worked for a living and struggled to provide for their families, it's one thing to read about these things; it's another thing to live them.

3. Bayan Rehan:

   Entire families were killed in the bunkers. I lost the connection with my family because my house is close to the location of the explosion, i couldn't hear anything from them until today morning because of the bad Internet connection. They told me that they had moved an hour before the chemical attack into a bunker which was away from our house; they were lucky to survive.

4. Donald Trump:

   While reopening the government is long overdue, I will not celebrate a temporary reprieve to a politically motivated crisis that has left many federal employees in anguish over how to pay their bills, feed their families, and keep a roof over their heads.

5. William Schaffner:

   The air seems to have gone out of the hydroxychloroquine balloon I'm afraid, i'd be surprised if there were many patients and their families or doctors who would want to pursue using hydroxychloroquine.

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