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Traditional English :: genealogical
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genealogist.html - adj. 1 of or concerning genealogy. 2 tracing family descent. genealogical tree a chart like an inverted branching tree showing the descent of a family or of an animal species. alogique f. Gk genealogikos (as GENEALOGY)] |
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Traditional English :: genealogy
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genealogist.html - n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. b an account or exposition of this. 2 the study and investigation of lines of descent. 3 a plant's or animal's line of development from earlier forms. genealogist n. genealogize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). [ME f. OF genealogie f. LL genealogia f. Gk genealogia f. genea race] |
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Traditional English :: genealogical
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genealogist.html - adj. 1 of or concerning genealogy. 2 tracing family descent. genealogical tree a chart like an inverted branching tree showing the descent of a family or of an animal species. alogique f. Gk genealogikos (as GENEALOGY)] |
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Traditional English :: genealogy
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genealogist.html - n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. b an account or exposition of this. 2 the study and investigation of lines of descent. 3 a plant's or animal's line of development from earlier forms. genealogist n. genealogize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). [ME f. OF genealogie f. LL genealogia f. Gk genealogia f. genea race] |
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English Idioms :: general
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genealogist.html - See: IN GENERAL. |
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English Idioms :: generation gap
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genealogist.html - {n.}, {informal}, {hackneyed phrase} The difference in social values, philosophies, and manners between children and their parents, teachers and relatives which causes a lack of understanding between them and frequently leads to violent confrontations. * /My daughter is twenty and I am forty, but we have no generation gap in our family./ |
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