FILIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filiation mean? 

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

1. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

2. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

  Familiarity information: FILIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage

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

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

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

bilateral descent (line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family)

unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)

Derivation:

filiate (fix the paternity of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; derivation; filiation; lineage

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

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from parents of different varieties or species)

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

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)