parentage
11parentage — noun a) Of or pertaining to ones parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of ones birth. My fortunes parentage good parentage To equal mine! was it not thus? What say you? b) The social quality of your class in society. Jeo sui de bon parentage …
12parentage — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from parent Date: 15th century 1. a. descent from parents or ancestors ; lineage < a person of noble parentage > b. derivation, origin < a tradition of uncertain parentage > …
13PARENTAGE — n. m. Ensemble des parents. Tout le parentage s’émut. Assembler tout le parentage. Il est vieux …
14parentage — par|ent|age [ˈpeərəntıdʒ US ˈper ] n [U] someone s parents and the country and social class they are from ▪ an English born man with Irish parentage ▪ He was born in France in 1670 of unknown parentage (=nobody knows who his parents were) …
15parentage — /pair euhn tij, par /, n. 1. derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage. 2. the state or relation of a parent; parenthood. [1480 90; < MF; see PARENT, AGE] Syn. 1. ancestry,… …
16parentage — par|ent|age [ perəntıdʒ ] noun uncount your parents considered as belonging to a particular country, religion, or social class: He is of mixed Italian and English parentage …
17parentage — noun (U) someone s parents and the country and social class they are from: a child of unknown parentage (=we do not know who its parents are) …
18parentage — noun Deedham was bound by tradition to marry only a woman of the finest parentage Syn: origins, extraction, birth, family, ancestry, lineage, heritage, pedigree, descent, blood, stock, roots …
19parentage — UK [ˈpeərəntɪdʒ] / US [ˈperəntɪdʒ] noun [uncountable] your parents considered as belonging to a particular country, religion, or social class He is of mixed Italian and English parentage …
20parentage — [ˈpeərəntɪdʒ] noun [U] your parents considered as belonging to a particular country, religion, or social class He is of mixed Italian and English parentage.[/ex] …
