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paternity paternity /pəˈtɜː.nɪ.ti/ aep /-ˈtɝː.nə.t̬i/ noun [U]
1 F0 the fact of being a father or connected with being a father: » Increasingly, the unmarried father of a child in Europe registers his paternity at the baby's birth.Thesaurus+: ↑Family relations in general2 F0 FORMAL the origin of an idea or new product Thesaurus+: ↑Origins and sources |