Usually means: Parents and their biological children.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word nuclear family:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuclear family: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nuclear family: Merriam-Webster
  3. nuclear family: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nuclear family: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nuclear family: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nuclear family: Vocabulary.com
  7. nuclear family: Wordnik
  8. nuclear family: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nuclear family: Wiktionary
  10. nuclear family: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nuclear family: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nuclear family: Dictionary.com
  13. Nuclear Family (comics), Nuclear Family (song), Nuclear Family, Nuclear family: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. nuclear family: Rhymezone
  15. nuclear family: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nuclear family: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nuclear family: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuclear family: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Family, nuclear, Nuclear family: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. nuclear family: Medical dictionary
  6. Family, nuclear, Nuclear family: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Political (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuclear family: Anthropological Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nuclear family)

▸ noun:  A family unit consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.

Similar:
Conjugal family, family, single-parent family, immediate family, joint family, parental unit, extended family, First Family, family unit, extended household, more...

Opposite:
extended family, blended family

Adjectives:
kindred, sib, collateral, patrilocal, flesh and blood, parently, familiar, fatherlike, kin, akin, enate

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Similar:
Conjugal family, family, single-parent family, immediate family, joint family, parental unit, extended family, First Family, family unit, extended household, more...

Opposite:
extended family, blended family

Adjectives:
kindred, sib, collateral, patrilocal, flesh and blood, parently, familiar, fatherlike, kin, akin, enate



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