Genealogy
[dʒiːnɪ'ælədʒɪ;dʒen-] or ['dʒinɪ'ælədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history.
(noun.) successive generations of kin.
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Definition
(n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
(n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pedigree, list of ancestors.[2]. Descent, derivation.
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Definition
n. history of the descent of families: the pedigree of a particular person or family.—adj. Genealog′ical.—adv. Genealog′ically.—v.i. Geneal′ogise to investigate or treat of genealogy.—n. Geneal′ogist one who studies or traces genealogies or descents.—Genealogical tree the lineage of a family or person under the form of a tree with roots branches &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Examples
- For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It scarcely seemed, however, to afford Mr Meagles as much satisfaction as the Barnacle genealogy had done. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her family took no interest in genealogy, so that my grandfather, who died when I was sixteen years old, knew only back to his grandfather. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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