(n) people descended from a common ancestor, Syn. kinfolk, family line, kinsfolk, folk, phratry, sept, Example:his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower
[はいか;はいけ, haika ; haike] (n) (1) deserted house; ruined house; (n, vs) (2) abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family