GENEALOGIES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

genealogies

noun

plural of genealogy

as in lineages

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended has a distinguished genealogy that traces back to William the Conqueror

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Recent Examples of genealogies Sometimes, though, these genealogies of behavior can seem beside the point, serving only to dull one’s analysis of the situation. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026 The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026 The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns. — Serdar Yalçin, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025 Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Farms spend decades breeding mink to develop unique genetic lineages.

— Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026
Some ancestral lineages diverged roughly 21,000 years ago, according to the review.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of lineages

Noun

But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of ancestries

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The decades-long search for answers in Amy’s case inspired the couple to help establish the nonprofit, which helps to fund unsolved homicide investigations, train investigators and support victims’ families.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
The plan is to find candidates from families that renounced their royal status in 1947, which at the time was to ease the postwar financial burden on the monarchy.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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