Agnate

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  • adjective. Related on or descended from the father's or male side.
  • adjective. Coming from a common source; akin.
  • noun. A relative on the father's or male side only.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Specifically, a kinsman whose connection is traceable exclusively through males; more generally, any male relation by the father's side. See agnati.
  • Related or akin on the father's side.
  • Allied in kind; from a common source: as, “agnate words,” Pownall, Study of Antiquities, p. 168.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; ; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine.
  • adjective. Allied; akin.
  • noun. A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
  • adjective. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. one related on the father's side
  • adjective. related on the father's side
    • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    enate  uterine  
    Equivalent
    related  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    relation  relative  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affiliated  affinal  affinitive  akin  akin  
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