"Wood family" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "A pun on wood, the material that may be seen when benches are empty.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Wood family",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Wood family",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Reginald Taylor, Circus Triumphant, page 177:",
          "text": "In spite of their efforts to avoid it, members of the \"Wood Family\" were constantly in evidence. In the slang of the circus, the phrase simply meant empty seats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Ivor Noël Hume, A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist:",
          "text": "[…] we trucked last week's show sixteen miles to the coastal village of Lynton for a single performance in the village hall, a performance attended largely by the “Wood Family”—theatrical gallows humor for the rows of empty wooden seats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Angela Carter, Wise Children, page 77:",
          "text": "We learned to despise the 'Wood' family, that is, the empty seats. We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell."
      ],
      "id": "en-Wood_family-en-name-R1LUU9Mj",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "Empty",
          "empty"
        ],
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ],
        [
          "theater",
          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "circus",
          "circus"
        ],
        [
          "ticket",
          "ticket"
        ],
        [
          "venue",
          "venue"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, humorous) Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Wood family"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A pun on wood, the material that may be seen when benches are empty.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Wood family",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Wood family",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, Reginald Taylor, Circus Triumphant, page 177:",
          "text": "In spite of their efforts to avoid it, members of the \"Wood Family\" were constantly in evidence. In the slang of the circus, the phrase simply meant empty seats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Ivor Noël Hume, A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist:",
          "text": "[…] we trucked last week's show sixteen miles to the coastal village of Lynton for a single performance in the village hall, a performance attended largely by the “Wood Family”—theatrical gallows humor for the rows of empty wooden seats.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Angela Carter, Wise Children, page 77:",
          "text": "We learned to despise the 'Wood' family, that is, the empty seats. We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "Empty",
          "empty"
        ],
        [
          "seat",
          "seat"
        ],
        [
          "theater",
          "theater"
        ],
        [
          "circus",
          "circus"
        ],
        [
          "ticket",
          "ticket"
        ],
        [
          "venue",
          "venue"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, humorous) Empty seats at a theater, circus, etc., corresponding to tickets that the venue failed to sell."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Wood family"
}