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family line vs parentage

parentage vs family line

family line and parentage both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
family line Yes No No No
parentage Yes No No No
As nouns, parentage is a hypernym of family line; that is, parentage is a word with a broader meaning than family line:
  • family line: people descended from a common ancestor
  • parentage: the hereditary derivation of an individual
Other hypernyms of family line include ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, pedigree, stemma, stock.
family line (noun) parentage (noun)
people descended from a common ancestor the hereditary derivation of an individual
the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
the state of being a parent
Difference between family line and parentage

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