| 单词 | bloodline |
| 释义 | bloodline (once / 51166 pages) n Your bloodline is your heritage or ancestry. In other words, your bloodline includes your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. You might talk about the bloodline of a show dog, bragging about the pedigree of your funny-looking terrier. Sometime a horse's bloodline is also a selling point, particularly when someone is betting on a race horse. You have a bloodline too, although the word more often describes the heritage of a famous or royal family. The Old English root word blod, means "blood." By the 13th century, blood also meant "family" or "heritage." WORD FAMILYbloodline: bloodlines USAGE EXAMPLESThe next Bloodlines season begins March 28 at the Joyce Theater. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) It previously pulled “Lilyhammer” and “Hemlock Grove,” and announced in September that “Bloodline’’ would not be returning. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Bloodline was frequently followed up with a serving of Spotlight for dessert. Time(Dec 07, 2016) 1n ancestry of a purebred animal Syn|Hyper pedigree ancestry, derivation, filiation, lineage inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline 2n the descendants of one individual Syn|Hypo|Hyper ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept people descended from a common ancestor sidea family line of descent peoplemembers of a family line homefolkthe people of your home locality (especially your own family) housearistocratic family line dynastya sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, namefamily based on male descent family tree, genealogy successive generations of kin |
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