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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kin, offspring; classification |
| Synonyms: | ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
| Main Entry: | blood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, consanguinity, descendants, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, relations, stock |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, class |
| Synonyms: | brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, likes, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
| Synonyms: | begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young |
| Antonyms: | child |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, sort, category |
| Synonyms: | branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, character, classification, collection, color, degree, denomination, department, description, designation, distinction, division, domain, estate, family, feather, frame, genre, genus, grade, grain, grouping, hierarchy, humor, ilk, kidney, league, make, mold, name, nature, order, origin, property, province, quality, range, rank, rate, school, sect, section, selection, set, source, species, sphere, standing, status, stripe, style, suit, temperament, value, variety |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | societal group, background |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, birth, bourgeoisie, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, cultural level, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, intelligentsia, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order, pedigree, pigeonhole, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, social rank, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, the right stuff, tier, title |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group living together |
| Synonyms: | collective, commonage, commonality, community, cooperative, family, kibbutz, municipality, neighborhood, rank and file, village |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | blood, extraction, family, family tree, genealogy, heredity, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, relationship |
| Main Entry: | extraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry, origin |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, derivation, descent, family, lineage, parentage, pedigree, race, stock |
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