adj
Meaning 1
Having a pedigree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pedigree
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/
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adj
Meaning 2
Purebred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 3
A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Good breeding or ancestry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 8
To determine the pedigree of (an animal).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 9
ancestry of a purebred animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bloodline
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation
noun
Meaning 10
line of descent of a purebred animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: breed, strain, stock
noun
Meaning 11
the descendants of one individual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his entire lineage has been warriors
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: genealogy, family tree
Narrower terms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry, side
History
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: радаво́д (radavód) — chart of ancestors
- Bulgarian: родосло́вие (rodoslóvie) — chart of ancestors
- Chinese Mandarin: 家譜 /家谱 (jiāpǔ) — chart of ancestors
- Chinese Mandarin: 系譜 /系谱 (xìpǔ) — chart of ancestors
- Czech: rodokmen — chart of ancestors
- Dutch: stamboom — chart of ancestors
- Finnish: sukutaulu — chart of ancestors
- Finnish: kantakirja — chart of ancestors
- French: pédigrée — chart of ancestors
- Galician: liñaxe — chart of ancestors
- Galician: fonduxe — chart of ancestors
- German: Ahnentafel — chart of ancestors
- Hebrew: יִחוּס (yiḥǘs) — chart of ancestors
- Irish: ginealach — chart of ancestors
- Japanese: 系図 (keizu) — chart of ancestors
- Japanese: 血統 (kettō) — chart of ancestors
- Japanese: 系譜 (keifu) — chart of ancestors
- Macedonian: родосло́вие (rodoslóvie) — chart of ancestors
- Malay: pedigri — chart of ancestors
- Māori: kāwai — chart of ancestors
- Māori: kāwei — chart of ancestors
- Norwegian Bokmål: stamtavle — chart of ancestors
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stamtavle — chart of ancestors
- Old Norse: kynkvísl — chart of ancestors
- Old Norse: langfeðgatal — chart of ancestors
- Polish: rodowód — chart of ancestors
- Portuguese: pedigree — chart of ancestors
- Russian: родосло́вная (rodoslóvnaja) — chart of ancestors
- Russian: родосло́вие (rodoslóvije) — chart of ancestors
- Serbo-Croatian: родословље — chart of ancestors
- Serbo-Croatian: rodoslovlje — chart of ancestors
- Slovak: rodokmeň — chart of ancestors
- Slovene: rodovnik — chart of ancestors
- Spanish: pedigrí — chart of ancestors
- Swedish: antavla — chart of ancestors
- Swedish: stamtavla — chart of ancestors
- Swedish: stamträd — chart of ancestors
- Tamil: கிளைவழி (kiḷaivaḻi) — chart of ancestors
- Tamil: கொடிவழி (koṭivaḻi) — chart of ancestors
- Tamil: கால்வழி (kālvaḻi) — chart of ancestors
- Tamil: வம்சாவளி (vamcāvaḷi) — chart of ancestors
- Turkish: silsilename — chart of ancestors
- Ottoman Turkish: سلسلهنامه (silsilename) — chart of ancestors
- Ukrainian: родові́д (rodovíd) — chart of ancestors
- Welsh: tras — chart of ancestors
- Bulgarian: родословие (rodoslovie) — a person's ancestral history
- Chinese Mandarin: 家譜 /家谱 (jiāpǔ) — a person's ancestral history
- Finnish: sukuhistoria — a person's ancestral history
- Māori: kākano — a person's ancestral history
- Marshallese: bwij — a person's ancestral history
- Tamil: கிளைவழி (kiḷaivaḻi) — a person's ancestral history
- Tamil: கொடிவழி (koṭivaḻi) — a person's ancestral history
- Tamil: கால்வழி (kālvaḻi) — a person's ancestral history
- Tamil: வம்சாவளி (vamcāvaḷi) — a person's ancestral history
- Chinese Mandarin: 純種的 /纯种的 (chúnzhǒngde) — good breeding
- Finnish: puhdasrotuisuus — good breeding
- Italian: di razza — good breeding
- Italian: purosangue — good breeding
- Slovak: vyšľachtený — good breeding
- Slovak: čistokrvný — good breeding
Real reading context