Word Family

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• Examples of word families
• Sentences with word families

The word family it is a set of words that derive from the same primitive word. They all share the same root and their meaning is related. For example: love, loving, heartbreak, love, love.

The primitive word is the one that gives rise to the rest of the family and does not derive from another word. Meanwhile, the derived word is formed from the primitive (it has the same root) and a related meaning.

See also:

• Lexical families
• Primitive and derived words

Examples of word families

1. Water: water, downpour, watery, drain, watery, watery.
2. Tree: grove, arborist, to raise, to dismantle.
3. Love: love affair, love affair, heartbreak, love, fall in love, fall out of love.
4. Art: artisan, artisan, artistic, artificial.
5. Ship: boat, embark, ferryman, basket.
6. Mouth: snack, sandwich, dove.
7. Horse: knight, cavalcade, cavalry, ride, chivalrous.
8. Head: head, head, head, head, head.
9. Hot: hot, calorie, hot, hot.
10. Path: walk, hike, hiker.
11. Letter: postman, discard, insert.
12. Science: scientific, unscientific.
13. Cloister: cloistered, cloistered, claustrophobia, cloistered.
14. Clear: clarify, clarify, clarify, clear.
15. Colour: coloring, coloring, coloring.
16. Sport: sports, sportsman, sportsmanship, sports center.
17. Sponge: fluffy, fluffy, spongiform.
18. Flower: floral, flowery, flourish, bloom.
19. fruit: fruit, fruit shop, enjoy, fruit bowl.
20. Skilled: ability, enable.
21. Leaf: leaf through, puff pastry, leaf litter, leaf.
22. Invention: invent, inventor, invention, inventiveness.
23. Yard: gardener, gardener, gardening.
24. Firewood: log, lumberjack, lumberjack, lumberjack.
25. Book: bookstore, bookcase, notebook, booklet.
26. Law: legal, legislate, legislator, illegal, legislative.
27. Light: luminous, firefly, illumination, illuminate.
28. Moon: lunar, moon landing, lunatic, moon landing.
29. Evil: malice, bad, evil, evil.
30. Sea: marine, maritime, overseas.
31. Medicine: medicine, medical, medicate, self-medicate.
32. Market: merchandise, flea market, merchant.
33. Table: table, counter, waiter.
34. Black: blacken, blackness, blackish.
35. Boy: babysitter, toddler, childhood, childish, girl.
36. Official: unofficial, official, official, official, non-commissioned officer.
37. Bread: baker, bakery, bread basket, breading.
38. Paper: trash, stationery, paperwork.
39. Pie: pastry shop, pastry chef, cupcake.
40. Grass: shepherd, shepherd, pasture, shepherdess.
41. Hair: hair, wig, hairdresser, fur, lint.
42. Fishing: fish, fisherman, fishmonger, fishing.
43. Painting: paint, painter, painters.
44. Registry: register, registered, registrable.
45. Salt: saline, salt, salt shaker, saltpeter.
46. Chair: armchair, saddle.
47. Sun: sunny, solar, sunny, solstice.
48. Throne: enthrone, dethrone, enthrone.
49. Wind: windy, blizzard, fuss.
50. Shoe: slipper, shoemaker, shoemaker, shoe store.

Sentences with word families

1. The Shoemaker fixed my shoes brown and they were like new.
2. The Sun It is very strong, do not forget to be protective solar before leaving.
3. I will put Salt to the salt shaker because it's empty.
4. The baby sister will stay with children tonight, so let's party.
5. The bookcase he recommended me a book of stories called the Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges.
6. I brought pencils colors so they can color the book that Santa Claus brought you.
7. The gardener is pruning the roses in the yard.
8. I put a lot of Water to the sauce and I was left watery.
9. I went to the Stationery to buy papers to make origami.
10. The woodcutter brought more firewood for the home stove.

• See also: Flower word family