paternitynoun [ U ]
uk/pəˈtɜː.nə.ti/us/pəˈtɝː.nə.t̬i/the fact of being a father :
Increasingly, the unmarried father of a child in Europe registers his paternity at the baby's birth.
formal the origin of an idea or new product
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Family: relations in general
- aunt
- auntie
- baby daddy
- be sb's own flesh and blood idiom
- birth mother
- fatherhood
- filial
- first cousin
- fraternal
- fraternal twin
- long-lost
- loved one
- maiden aunt
- maternal
- matriarch
- son
- uncle
- working mother/father/parent
- your nearest and dearest idiom
- your own flesh and blood idiom
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