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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, breed, clan, descendants, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, stirps, stock, succession, tribe |
| Notes: | linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent |
| Main Entry: | relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection, family connection |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity |
| Main Entry: | roots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | background, birthplace, blood, breed, descent, family history, family tree, genealogy, heritage, kindred, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, race |
| Main Entry: | stock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | background, breed, clan, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, house, kin, kindred, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, race, species, strain, tribe, type, variety |
| Main Entry: | tribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethnic group; family |
| Synonyms: | association, blood, caste, clan, class, division, dynasty, horde, house, ilk, kin, kind, kindred, lineage, people, race, seed, society, sort, stock, type |
| Main Entry: | blood relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relative by birth |
| Synonyms: | biological relationship, blood, blood brother, blood relationship, blood relative, blood sister, consanguinean, family, flesh, flesh and blood, genetic relationship, kindred, ties of blood, uterine kin |
| Main Entry: | kith and kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquaintances and relatives |
| Synonyms: | acquaintances, consanguinity, family, friends and relatives, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsfolk, kinsmen, relations, relatives |
| Main Entry: | hookup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, connection, consanguinity, correlation, interconnection, interdependence, interrelationship, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, link, linkage, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity |
| Main Entry: | interconnection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, connection, consanguinity, correlation, interdependence, interrelationship, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, link, linkage, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity, tie-in |
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