PARENTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parentage mean? 

• PARENTAGE (noun)
  The noun PARENTAGE has 3 senses:

1. the state of being a parent

2. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

3. the descendants of one individual

  Familiarity information: PARENTAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARENTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being a parent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

parentage; parenthood

Context example:

to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man

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

adulthood (the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity)

Derivation:

parent (look after a child until it is an adult)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

birth; parentage

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

family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)

Derivation:

parent (look after a child until it is an adult)

Sense 3

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

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

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

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

side (a family line of descent)

Derivation:

parent (look after a child until it is an adult)

 Context examples 

Favour me with an account of her—with her name, her parentage, her place of abode.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Harriet's parentage became known.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Men of family would not be very fond of connecting themselves with a girl of such obscurity—and most prudent men would be afraid of the inconvenience and disgrace they might be involved in, when the mystery of her parentage came to be revealed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)