PEDIGREE
Dictionary entry overview: What does pedigree mean?
• PEDIGREE (noun)
The noun PEDIGREE has 3 senses:
1. the descendants of one individual
2. line of descent of a purebred animal
3. ancestry of a purebred animal
Familiarity information: PEDIGREE used as a noun is uncommon.
• PEDIGREE (adjective)
The adjective PEDIGREE has 1 sense:
1. having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
Familiarity information: PEDIGREE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PEDIGREE (noun)
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
pedigree; lineage; bloodline; blood line; ancestry; stemma; line of descent; blood; parentage; origin; descent; stock; line
Context example:
his entire lineage has been warriors
Hypernyms ("pedigree" is a kind of...):
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pedigree"):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
breed (a special lineage)
side (a family line of descent)
Meaning:
Line of descent of a purebred animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("pedigree" is a kind of...):
breed; stock; strain (a special variety of domesticated animals within a species)
Meaning:
Ancestry of a purebred animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bloodline; pedigree
Hypernyms ("pedigree" is a kind of...):
ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)
• PEDIGREE (adjective)
Meaning:
Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
Synonyms:
pedigree; pedigreed; pureblood; pureblooded; thoroughbred
Similar:
purebred (bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain)
