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bloodline

[ bluhd-lahyn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

bloodline

/ ˈblʌdˌlaɪn /

all the members of a family group over generations, esp regarding characteristics common to that group; pedigree

First recorded in 1905–10; blood + line ¹

In a tiny, remote Chinese village, an ancient Roman bloodline may live on.

Willie is a true American icon, and it runs deep in the bloodline.

But one thing runs through their blue bloodline – they keep hanging on, until death parts them from the throne.

Among their ancestors, they believed in wedding brother to sister to preserve the bloodline.

Her concern was more that the theatrical bloodline was one she could never escape to carve out her own niche.

Macedonia was a vital (also corrupt and lucrative) bloodline, connecting Greece to Serbia (through the Vardar river).

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