BLOODLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloodline mean? 

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

1. the descendants of one individual

2. ancestry of a purebred animal

  Familiarity information: BLOODLINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOODLINE (noun)

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 ("bloodline" is a kind of...):

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

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

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

side (a family line of descent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ancestry of a purebred animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bloodline; pedigree

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

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)