family tree
Syllables: fa·mi·ly tree
family tree noun: a diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
Noun
family tree (plural family trees)
- A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
- Heredity and environment are not the absolute arbiters of what will be, as Jesus' genealogy details in the first chapter of Matthew's Gospel. As Gardner Taylor, an African-American preacher in Brooklyn, noted, Rahab the prostitute is in the family tree of Jesus Christ.1997, Doug Adams, The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible, →ISBN, page 3
- We're from the family tree of old school hip-hop / Kick off your shoes and relax your socks1998, “Intergalactic”, performed by Beastie Boys
- A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
- A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
- A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.
family tree meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
family tree in Hindi
- family tree
- वंशावली vañśāvlī
family tree in Tamil
- குலவரிசை, குடும்ப கிளைப்படம், வம்ச கிளைப்படம்
family tree in Urdu
- family tree
- شجرہ
family tree in Malayalam
- വംശാവലി, വംശവൃക്ഷം
More languagesFewer languages
- family tree in Kannada
- ವಂಶಾವಳಿ vaṃśāvaḷi
- family tree in Punjabi
- پوڑی pauṛī
- family tree in Gujarati
- પરિયા pariyā
- family tree in Arabic
- شَجَرَة النَّسَب
- family tree in Malay
- pokok keluarga, pohon keluarga
- family tree in Indonesian
- silsilah
- family tree in Persian
- دودمانه dudmâne, شجره
- family tree in Vietnamese
- gia phổ, gia phả, phả đồ, cây phả hệ
Examples of family tree in a sentence
- As the years have passed, Barack Obama's family tree has grown.2010, Amelie von Zumbusch, Barack Obama's Family Tree: Roots of Achievement, →ISBN, page 22:
- It's never been discussed whether or not there is mental illness in my family tree but I know a great aunt committed suicide years before using paracetamol.2011, Suzannah Knight, Black Magic, →ISBN, page 18:
- Brigitte Macron has not spoken publicly on the false gender claims since 2022, when she told French radio, RTL, the allegations were an “impossible” attack on her parents’ family tree.2025 October 27, Angelique Chrisafis, “Ten people go on trial in Paris for online harassment of Brigitte Macron”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms of family tree
| plural | family trees |
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Questions about family tree
- What does family tree mean?
- Family tree means a diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- What is family tree in Hindi?
- Family tree in Hindi is वंशावली (vañśāvlī). See Family tree meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use family tree in a sentence?
- As the years have passed, Barack Obama's family tree has grown.
- What part of speech is family tree?
- Family tree is a noun.
- What is the plural of family tree?
- The plural of family tree is family trees.
Words near family tree in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: family tree (page history and authors); family tree (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); family tree (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ವಂಶಾವಳಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); پوڑی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); પરિયા (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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