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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 individualplay

  Familiarity information: BLOOD LINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLOOD LINE (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 ("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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