Meaning

Of a level of society higher than family..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a level of society higher than family.
2. (taxonomy) Whose taxonomic level is higher than family.

Example Sentences

1988, D. Blair Gibson, M.N. Geselowitz, Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, Springer, Softcover reprint, page 47, All pastoral and agro-pastoral societies have some form of suprafamilial and often supralocal political structure, and all are marked by some form of social inequality.

The social group of interest when historians speak of "communes" in rural Russia is any suprafamilial one that is linked to the territory of a village or sometimes a parish community.

What is striking in the innovations of both Solon and Cleisthenes is the establishment of a governing body that was suprafamilial, in which the members of the council functioned as citizens—as representatives of the city-state (polis) as such—rather than as representatives of the family (oikos) or clan (genos).

A suprafamilial name revised from its previously published rank with accompanying change of termination (which may or may not be intended to signalize the change of rank) is recorded as nom. transl et correct.

In the final version of this classification (Cushman, 1948), the number of families (without any suprafamilial groupings) was 50.

While the Code does not apply to taxa above the family level, Corliss (1962a) argued that it is common sense to apply these principles at the suprafamilial level, and we have followed this recommendation. When a suprafamilial taxon has been simply transferred within a higher taxon or between higher taxa, even if it has changed its rank, we have retained the priority date from the original publication along with the original authorship. This promotes stability and recognizes priority.

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Use suprafamilial when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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