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BLOOD LINE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood line mean?

• BLOOD LINE (noun)
The noun BLOOD LINE has 1 sense:

1. the descendants of one individual

Familiarity information: BLOOD LINE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BLOOD LINE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood line; bloodline; pedigree; lineage; stemma; line of descent; blood; parentage; origin; descent; stock; line

Context example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

Hypernyms ("blood line" is a kind of...):

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood line"):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

breed (a special lineage)

side (a family line of descent)

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