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FAMILY CIRCLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

Synonyms:

family circle; peanut gallery; second balcony; upper balcony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("family circle" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Holonyms ("family circle" is a part of...):

balcony (an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium)

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 Context examples: 

Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To have it quite in their own family circle was what they had particularly wished.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)