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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: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heritage |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, background, blood, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebears, genealogy, heritance, legacy, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, position, race, rank, station, status, stock, strain |
| 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: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | caste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social class |
| Synonyms: | cultural level, degree, estate, grade, lineage, order, position, race, rank, social order, species, sphere, standing, station, status, stratum |
| 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: | consanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | blood, extraction, family, family tree, genealogy, heredity, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, relationship |
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