BREEDINGS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

breedings

noun

plural of breeding

as in pedigrees

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community

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Noun

Global flavors with local pedigrees provide the secret sauce for Seattle’s culinary scene.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
The cast has become a kind of living monument to New York theater, with Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Donna Murphy, Kelli O’Hara, Audra McDonald, and many others bringing Broadway pedigrees to the series.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of pedigrees

Noun

One of the lineages appears to have interbred directly with Homo sapiens in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, while the other was an even older group that passed some of its DNA to humans indirectly through Denisovans.

— Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
In addition, the way in initial cases occurred in clusters within the market and the distribution of the earliest viral lineages, is consistent with the likelihood that several separate animal-to-human spillover events took place in late 2019.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 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

Noun

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

Definition of genealogies

Noun

The siblings — Kucha, Zeimani and BG — are fresh, vibrant singers who have deep musical bloodlines as the granddaughters of Sam Cooke.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2026
As the lines between the living and dead blur, the book shows that our worst ghosts are the wounds in our own bloodlines.

— Shane Hawk, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of bloodlines

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