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n. A planned unique or infrequent gathering of family members or distant relatives.
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A family reunion is an occasion when many members of an extended family congregate. Sometimes reunions are held regularly, for example on the same date of every year.
A typical family reunion will assemble grandparents, great-grandparents and up for a meal, some recreation and discussion. The older attendees are generally grandparents, parents, siblings or first cousins while the youngest could be second, third or fourth cousins. It is also not uncommon for regular family reunions to be sponsored by family organizations or family associations centered on a more distant common ancestor (often referred to as "ancestral family organizations") or a commonly shared surname ("single surname family organizations").
A family reunion takes place on a specified day each year for the purpose of keeping an extended family closer together.
Family Reunion may also refer to:
Family Reunion is a 1981 four-hour American made-for-television drama film directed by Fielder Cook. The teleplay by Allan Sloane was based on the Good Housekeeping article How America Lives by Joe Sparton. It was produced by Columbia Pictures Television for NBC, which aired it in two parts on October 11 and 12, 1981.
At its core is feisty matriarch Elizabeth Winfield, a New England teacher recently retired after a fifty-year career. She uses an unlimited bus ticket received as a gift to visit the distant members of her long-estranged family. During her absence, her small hometown, which bears her family's name, falls prey to dishonest relatives colluding with corrupt shopping mall developers. She returns in an effort to halt construction on the project and, armed with the moral integrity she has instilled in her students for the past five decades, she manages to resolve the situation in time for the annual Founder's Day festivities.
"Family Reunion" is the first single from Saliva's sixth studio album, Cinco Diablo. Lead singer Josey Scott has said that the song is about meeting their fans on the road. The song peaked at #14 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 2008.
The song could be heard during NCAA College Basketball games televised on ESPN during the 2008-2009 season. It is also used by the Erie Otters during their pregame highlight video.
Family Reunion is a 1975 album by American R&B group The O'Jays.
Family Reunion is the world’s first “virtual” country music band. It is composed of six anonymous American musicians and composers living in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, and California.
"Family Reunion" is a song by the American rock band Blink-182. The song, which lasts no more than 36 seconds, is essentially a sung-through version of comedian George Carlin's Seven dirty words routine: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits, with the addition of fart, turd, and twat.
Usage examples of "family reunion".
Dinner was a happy family reunion despite the slight cloud that still hung over the twins.
She opened the Bible, and there it was, the wax-paper sleeve with the same photo her mother had shown her at the family reunion dinner.
He hugged her and held her close, all the while keeping firm hold of my hand, and we had a most joyous family reunion there in the glade in the Zoo of Zithel.