Filiation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The condition or fact of being the child of a certain parent.
  • noun. Judicial determination of the paternity of a nonmarital child for the purposes of compelling support.
  • noun. A line of descent; derivation.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or fact of forming a new branch, as of a society or language group.
  • noun. The branch thus formed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The relation of a son or daughter to a parent: the correlative of paternity.
  • noun. The establishment of a filial relation, specifically by adoption.
  • noun. In law, the judicial determination of the paternity of a child, especially of a bastard; affiliation.
  • noun. Any analogous close connection or relation.
  • noun. An individual or group of individuals derived from one source or parent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
  • noun. The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
  • noun. Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son.
  • noun. One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being a child of a specified parent
  • noun. The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline
  • noun. The determination of paternity
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  • noun. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
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