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GENEALOGY

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• GENEALOGY (noun)
The noun GENEALOGY has 2 senses:

1. successive generations of kin
2. the study or investigation of ancestry and family history

Familiarity information: GENEALOGY used as a noun is rare.

• GENEALOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Successive generations of kin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family tree; genealogy

Hypernyms ("genealogy" is a kind of...):

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

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

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The study or investigation of ancestry and family history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("genealogy" is a kind of...):

bailiwick; branch of knowledge; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)

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(English proverb)
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(Thomas Haynes Bayly)
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(Catalan proverb)
"Better a good neighbour than a distant friend."
(Dutch proverb)

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