From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishimmediate familyimmediate familyFAMILYpeople who are very closely related to you, such as your parents, children, brothers, and sisters → immediate
Examples from the Corpus
immediate family• Cancer claimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family.• My own camp was wedged between the two branches of my immediate family.• Oh, and I should probably start with your immediate family.• She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family.• She was respectfully requested to keep the fact he is on special assignment to herself and her immediate family.• Instead she joined her immediate family for a service at the private chapel on the Althorp estate.• Her husband and her immediate family live in Moscow.• The brotherhood of man did not end with the immediate family of siblings at which it began. 