Usually means: Origin or lineage of a person.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word parentage:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. parentage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parentage: Merriam-Webster
  3. parentage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parentage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parentage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parentage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parentage, parentage: Wordnik
  8. parentage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. parentage: Wiktionary
  10. parentage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. parentage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. parentage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Parentage, parentage: Dictionary.com
  14. parentage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Parentage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parentage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parentage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parentage: Rhymezone
  19. Parentage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parentage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. parentage: FreeDictionary.org
  22. parentage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. parentage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. parentage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parentage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parentage: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
▸ noun:  The social quality of one's class in society.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Origin; derivation.

Similar:
bloodline, lineage, pedigree, ancestry, birth, origin, descent, stock, line, blood, more...

Opposite:
offspring, descendants, progeny

Types:
mother, father, parents, maternal, paternal, lineage, ancestry, descent, more...

Phrases:
parentage testing, parentage determination, parentage exclusion testing, more...

Adjectives:
mixed, foreign, native, irish, german, humble, american, common, english, noble, unknown

Colors:
    ivory,     beige,     sepia,     taupe,     cream, more...

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Similar:
bloodline, lineage, pedigree, ancestry, birth, origin, descent, stock, line, blood, more...

Opposite:
offspring, descendants, progeny

Types:
mother, father, parents, maternal, paternal, lineage, ancestry, descent, more...

Phrases:
parentage testing, parentage determination, parentage exclusion testing, more...

Adjectives:
mixed, foreign, native, irish, german, humble, american, common, english, noble, unknown

Colors:
    ivory,     beige,     sepia,     taupe,     cream, more...



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