"parentage" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: parentages [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French parentage. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|-}} Middle French, {{uder|en|fro|parentage}} Old French parentage Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} parentage (countable and uncountable, plural parentages)
  1. The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (identity of one's parents): бащинство (baštinstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), майчинство (majčinstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), parenté [feminine] (French), părinți [masculine, plural] (Romanian), descendență [feminine] (Romanian), происхождение (proisxoždenije) (Russian), parentela [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-parentage-en-noun-uf8JRu6L Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 16 7 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 45 22 33 Disambiguation of "identity of one's parents": 79 20 1
  2. The social quality of one's class in society. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-parentage-en-noun-vRMzZxf1
  3. (figurative) Origin; derivation. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-parentage-en-noun-d00L63gL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mixed parentage Related terms: parentship, parentdom

Inflected forms

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