parentagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈpeə.rən.tɪdʒ/us/ˈper.ən.t̬ɪdʒ/When you refer to people's parentage, you mean their parents and/or their parent's country and social class:
The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
She is of mixed Australian and Japanese parentage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Parents & children
- babyhood
- bastard
- child abuse
- child-friendly
- conjoined twins
- identical twin
- illegitimate
- latchkey kid
- legitimate
- love child
- motherhood
- motherless
- patter
- quad
- quadruplet
- quintuplet
- sextuplet
- Siamese twins
- twin
- without issue idiom
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