nuclear family
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The traditional western family unit, consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.
Example Sentences
- "The initial result of that fragmentation, the nuclear family, didn’t seem so bad. But then, because the nuclear family is so brittle, the fragmentation continued. In many sectors of society, nuclear families fragmented into single-parent families, single-parent families into chaotic families or no families."