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pedigree

[ped-i-gree]

noun

  1. an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.

  2. a genealogical table, chart, list, or record, especially of a purebred animal.

  3. distinguished, excellent, or pure ancestry.

  4. derivation, origin, or history.

    the pedigree of a word.



pedigree

/ ˈɛɪˌɡː /

noun

    1. the line of descent of a purebred animal

    2. ( as modifier )

      a pedigree bull

  1. a document recording this

  2. a genealogical table, esp one indicating pure ancestry

  3. derivation or background

    the pedigree of an idea

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • pedigreeless adjective
  • ˈ徱ˌ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pedigree1

1375–1425; late Middle English pedegru, from Anglo-French, equivalent to Middle French pie de grue literally, “foot of crane,” a fanciful way of describing the appearance of the lines of a genealogical chart
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pedigree1

C15: from Old French pie de grue crane's foot, alluding to the spreading lines used in a genealogical chart
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Synonym Study

Pedigree, genealogy refer to an account of ancestry. A pedigree is a table or chart recording a line of ancestors, either of persons or (more especially) of animals, as horses, cattle, and dogs; in the case of animals, such a table is used as proof of superior qualities: a detailed pedigree. A genealogy is an account of the descent of a person or family traced through a series of generations, usually from the first known ancestor: a genealogy that includes a king.
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Still, Matt Roush sees something to celebrate at the summit, saying “Mountainhead” “feels like a front-runner on pedigree alone,” citing its writing and direction by ‘Succession’s’ Jesse Armstrong, and its starry cast.

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When you look at the opportunity to bring in 15, 17 years of experience, pedigree, pipeline, timeline, management, all of those things from really the granddaddy system of them all, that is always extremely interesting.

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That pedigree is part of the answer for why the tournament was created.

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What their dish lacked in finesse, it offered in potential: a reminder that hollandaise, for all its French culinary pedigree, is more of a canvas than a mandate.

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Crucially, Ramaphosa's conduct with Trump reminded South Africans of his diplomatic pedigree, and of his importance to the country's rules-based order.

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