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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
Sense 1
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock
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)
side (a family line of descent)
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