genealogy
Meaning of genealogy
noun
- a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
the genealogies of the kings of Mercia
Middle English: via Old French and late Latin from Greek genealogia, from genea ‘race, generation’ + -logia (see -logy).
Information about genealogy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of genealogy is: genealogies.
- Languages in which genealogy is used:
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Hyphenation of genealogy
ge-neal-ogy
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- genealogy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
genealogy synonyms
Meaning the recorded ancestry or lineage of a person or family:
Meaning one's family or ethnic descent:
Meaning the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality:
Meaning direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree:
Meaning a connected series of people following one another in time (used especially of several generations of a family):
Meaning the ethnic origin of someone's family:
Meaning the formation of a word from another word or from a root in the same or another language:
Meaning a person's social background or ancestry:
Meaning property that is or may be inherited; an inheritance:
Meaning the identity and origins of one's parents:
Meaning (especially in legal contexts) the state of being someone's father:
Meaning a person's origin, descent, or ancestry:
Meaning all the descendants of a common ancestor:
Meaning a line of hereditary rulers of a country:
Meaning a building for human habitation, especially one that consists of a ground floor and one or more upper storeys:
Meaning a competition between runners, horses, vehicles, etc. to see which is the fastest in covering a set course:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning a person's ancestry or line of descent:
Meaning a stock of animals or plants within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection:
Meaning family background; descent or lineage:
Meaning an animal's set of ancestors or pedigree, especially with reference to the desirable characteristics bred into it:
Meaning the study of past events, particularly in human affairs:
Meaning the part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer:
Meaning the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres:
Meaning the fact of being the child of a particular parent or parents:
Meaning a recorded genealogy of a family; a family tree:
Translation of genealogy
- Spanish: genealogía
- French: généalogie
- Italian: genealogia
- Portuguese: genealogia
Words that rhyme with genealogy
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