GENEALOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genealogy mean? 

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

1. successive generations of kin

2. the study or investigation of ancestry and family history

  Familiarity information: GENEALOGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENEALOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Successive generations of kin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family tree; genealogy

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

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

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

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

Derivation:

genealogical (of or relating to genealogy)

genealogist (an expert in genealogy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The study or investigation of ancestry and family history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)

Derivation:

genealogic (of or relating to genealogy)

 Context examples 

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best-born.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)