bloodline

noun

ˈbləd-ˌlīn How to pronounce bloodline (audio)
Definition of bloodlinenext
as in lineage
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended came from a bloodline that could be traced back to the 12th century

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Recent Examples of bloodline But repression isn’t a good plan when generations-long curses run in the bloodline, because Sally’s daughter Kylie (Joey King), now a college student, has gone and fallen in love behind her mother’s back. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026 One of those daughters was the magical Maria, progenitor of Sally, Gillian, Kylie, and Antonia’s bloodline. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026 But when the death watch beetle starts creeping around Kylie’s boyfriend (Xolo Maridueña), an emotionally available DJ — the script’s words, not mine — the truth about her bloodline comes spilling out. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 For now, the mission is limited in scale, targeting the bloodlines most in danger of disappearing. — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bloodline
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodline
  1. lineage
  2. ancestry
  3. pedigree
  4. genealogy
  5. breeding
  6. origin
Noun
  • Reconciling competing visions of reality depends on continuously normalizing disparate vendor inputs into a unified GTM data model, scoring source reliability, assessing recency and maintaining complete lineage tracking.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • As ecologist Doug Tallamy has chronicled, over 90% of herbivorous insects specialize on one or a few native plant lineages.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of lineage
Noun
  • Instead, the report estimated the girls had 50% Ukrainian ancestry.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It is often erroneously compared to Halloween, though the two holidays may share ancestry in Catholicism’s All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
    — Rocio Muñoz Ledo, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of ancestry
Noun
  • Riggle, meanwhile, has played a character like this (albeit not one with Saint Nick’s pedigree) a few dozen times already, so his comic contributions are reliable if not terribly fresh.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Casey is valuable not for her (mixed) pedigree, we’re meant to understand, but because Harley loved her.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of pedigree
Noun
  • The forensic department at Oklahoma State University then took over genealogy profiling, according to Rouse.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Lichtman's discovery highlights the role of JewishGen, one of the world's largest online resources for Jewish genealogy.
    — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of genealogy
Noun
  • Scientists inserted genes associated with Alzheimer’s into mouse genomes, breeding animals that had high levels of amyloid in their brains; the mice then began to struggle with spatial navigation.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Deer breeding behavior, known as the rut, aligns with the changing length of daylight.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of breeding
Noun
  • However, researchers could not determine the exact origins of the particles.
    — The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Previous work in South Florida suggests that coral performance depends on geographic origin and environmental conditions.
    — Steven Vollmer, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of origin

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“Bloodline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodline. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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