parentage : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: parentage	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for parentage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parentage n the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" Synonym(s): parenthood, parentage the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents Synonym(s): parentage, birth the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" Synonym(s): lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parentage \Par"entage\, n. [Cf. F. parentage* relationship.] Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. [bd]Wilt thou deny thy parentage?[b8] --Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. --Milton.