Synonyms:
lineage, line, line_of_descent, descent, bloodline, blood_line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
Meaning: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonyms:
parentage, birth
Meaning: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
Synonyms:
parenthood, parentage
Meaning: the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man"
Usage examples
He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage.
'Your name is Richard Hanau,' Blenkiron said, 'born in Cleveland, Ohio, of German parentage on both sides.
'Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived.'
In my first stage the reader will perceive that I was a comparatively weak and harmless little slander, with merely that taint of original sin which was to be expected in one of such parentage.