joint family
noun
a type of extended family composed of parents, their children, and the children's spouses and offspring in one household.
Also called
joint household.
Origin of joint family
First recorded in 1875–80
Words nearby joint family
Example sentences from the Web for joint family
It may be compared with the conditions in the joint-family communities of the American Indians.
The Position of Woman in Primitive Society |C. Gasquoine HartleyPoor and broken tribesmen, not having sufficient wealth to qualify them as Aires, formed a “joint-family,” or Congilda.
Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II) |Richard Bagwell