parentage   (TTS Sound)

The noun parentage has 3 senses

• parenthood, parentage -- (the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man")


• parentage, birth -- (the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents)


• lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors")