family tree

Noun

Meaning

successive generations of kin

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

genealogy house family line blood dynasty race origin birth stock background root succession heritage descent

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Antonyms

end last development child ending conclusion

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Hypernyms

kindred clan kin tribe kinship group kin group

Hyponyms

line blood origin stock descent ancestry

Examples

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. Rodney Dangerfield

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. Henry Louis Gates

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) Sherrilyn Kenyon

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university. Clive Granger

He was caught up in a lie he half-believed, Found her hiding high in the family tree. Washed his hands, and put her 'cross his knee. She said "daddy, you've been a mother to me." Tom Petty

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. Henry Louis Gates

Close letter words and terms

family Tragulidae family training family Trapaceae family trees family Tremellaceae family Trephritidae