Definition for Pedigree:

• Lineage ; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea ( Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Bep. 277; People v. Mayne, 118 Cal. 510, 50 Pac. 054, 02 Am. St Rep. 250.

Synonyms for Pedigree:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • pedigree.
  •highbred (adjective)
  • more titled,
  • queenly,
  • queenlier,
  • most titled,
  • most wellborn,
  • well born,
  • more wellborn.
  •pureblooded (adjective)
  • pure blooded,
  • pure-blooded.
  •purebred (adjective)
  • pure-blood,
  • full-blooded.
  •thoroughbred (adjective)
  • more papered,
  • most pedigreed,
  • more pure-blooded,
  • most papered,
  • bloodest,
  • most pure-blooded,
  • most pure blooded,
  • fullblooded,
  • full blooded,
  • more pure blooded,
  • more pedigreed,
  • blooder.

• n.

  •
  • arachnid,
  • arthropod,
  • animal,
  • biped,
  • bear,
  • big game,
  • adult,
  • beast of burden,
  • beast,
  • amphibian.
  •
  • forbear,
  • antecedents,
  • branch,
  • Fathers,
  • descendant,
  • ancestor.
  •
  • fertile,
  • breeder,
  • asexual reproduction,
  • fecund,
  • courtship,
  • breeding ground,
  • estrus,
  • couple.
  •
  • stratum,
  • echelon,
  • caste,
  • status,
  • position,
  • grade,
  • ranking,
  • level.
  •
  • seed.
  •ancestry (noun)
  • fore-goer,
  • fore runner,
  • fore bear,
  • fore-runner,
  • pre-cursors,
  • fore mother,
  • foregoers,
  • fore father,
  • pre-cursor,
  • fore-bear,
  • fore goer,
  • fore runners,
  • fore fathers,
  • fore-goers,
  • fore goers,
  • fore-mothers,
  • fore mothers,
  • pro-genitor,
  • fore-father,
  • pro genitor,
  • fore-fathers,
  • fore-runners,
  • pre cursors,
  • pre cursor.
  •ancestry, heritage (noun)
  • clan,
  • race,
  • heredity.
  •birth (noun)
  • fore bears,
  • heritances,
  • fore-bears.
  •breed (noun)
  • genuses.
  •class (noun)
  • de grees,
  • cultural levels,
  • de gree,
  • de-grees,
  • the right stuffs,
  • social ranks,
  • de-gree.
  •family (noun)
  • heirs and assign,
  • in-heritance,
  • kith kin,
  • in heritances,
  • sub-divisions,
  • in-heritances,
  • in laws,
  • in law,
  • heirs assigns,
  • in heritance,
  • pro genitors,
  • sub-division,
  • pro-genitors,
  • sub division,
  • inlaws,
  • sub divisions,
  • heirs assign.
  •family tree (noun)
  • Genealogical Trees,
  • genealogical chart,
  • stemma,
  • ancestral tree,
  • Genealogical Tree,
  • family history.
  •genealogy (noun)
  • pro genitures,
  • geneticses,
  • pro geniture,
  • pro-genitures,
  • progenitures,
  • blood lines,
  • pro-geniture.
  •heritage (noun)
  • birth.
  •origin (noun)
  • be-ginning,
  • be ginning.
  •pedigree (noun)
  • purebred.
  •rank (noun)
  • primacy.
  •stock (noun)
  • line descent.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • pedigreed,
  • pureblood,
  • pureblooded,
  • thoroughbred,
  • wellborn,
  • Well-born,
  • queenliest,
  • highbred.
  •n.
  • ancestry,
  • blood,
  • blood line,
  • bloodline,
  • bourgeoisie,
  • breed,
  • class,
  • derivation,
  • descent,
  • eminence,
  • extraction,
  • family tree,
  • filiation,
  • forebear,
  • forefather,
  • foremother,
  • genealogy,
  • genetics,
  • hierarchy,
  • history,
  • in-law,
  • intelligentsia,
  • line of descent,
  • lineage,
  • nobility,
  • origin,
  • parentage,
  • paternity,
  • precursor,
  • primogenitor,
  • rank,
  • roots,
  • social rank,
  • station,
  • stock,
  • strain,
  • tier,
  • tribe,
  • Antecessor,
  • Family,
  • Foregoer,
  • Heritance,
  • Inlaw,
  • stirpes,
  • Progeniture,
  • Stirps,
  • Paternities,
  • antecessors,
  • origins,
  • peoples,
  • primogenitors,
  • genres,
  • forefathers,
  • Fore-mother,
  • bourgeoisies,
  • childrens,
  • cultural level,
  • foremothers,
  • heirs and assigns,
  • in-laws,
  • intelligentsias,
  • the right stuff.
  •v.
  • line,
  • quality.

Paraphrases for Pedigree:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    lineage, origin.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    descent, ancestry, background, bloodline.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pedigreed, genealogy.
  • Proper noun, singular
    genealogy.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    parentage, genealogy.

Antonyms for Pedigree:

• adj.

  • purebred
    base-born, lowly.

• n.

  • ancestry, heritage
    end, result, consequence, outgrowth, effect, conclusion.
  • Other antonyms:
    issue, successor, crossbred, seed, son, inheritor, posterity, child, progeny, offspring, heir.

Pedigree Sentence Examples:

• In the course of his long conflicts with the House of Lords he had probably interested himself somewhat profoundly in questions of heredity and pedigree, and he was thus well equipped for an investigation into the records of the parentage and grandparentage of the various Derby horses.

• His love for his horse is a love of delight in her beauty, and her endurance and her swiftness, causing the master even at the point of death in battle to pour forth the praises of his mare, and with his last breath call aloud her pedigree to the lucky person, to whom she falls as booty.

Hyponym for Pedigree:

• n.

  • group
    breed, strain, stock.