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pedigree

/ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/

pedigree noun: a chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.

Noun

pedigree (countable and uncountable, plural pedigrees)

  1. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
  2. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
  3. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
  4. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
    • This connection between sexual and spiritual impurity had an immense pedigree.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 33
  5. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.

Adjective

pedigree (not comparable)

  1. Having a pedigree.
  2. Purebred.

Verb

pedigree (third-person singular simple present pedigrees, present participle pedigreeing, simple past and past participle pedigreed)

  1. (transitive) To determine the pedigree of (an animal).

pedigree meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

pedigree in Tamil

chart of ancestors
கிளைவழி kiḷaivaḻi, கொடிவழி koṭivaḻi, கால்வழி kālvaḻi, வம்சாவளி vamcāvaḷi
a person's ancestral history
கிளைவழி kiḷaivaḻi, கொடிவழி koṭivaḻi, கால்வழி kālvaḻi, வம்சாவளி vamcāvaḷi

pedigree in Urdu

حسب, نسب, نسل, پیڑھی, سات پشت, سلسلہ

pedigree in Bengali

বংশতালিকা, আভিজাত্য, বিশুদ্ধ জাতের রেকর্ড, ঐতিহ্যবাহী ইতিহাস, প্রমাণিত অতীত অর্জন

pedigree in Malayalam

വംശാവലി, വംശം, പാരമ്പര്യം, കുലം
More languagesFewer languages
pedigree in Kannada
ತಳಿ, ಮನೆತನ, ಕುಲ, ವಂಶ
pedigree in Punjabi
ਰਵਾ ravā
pedigree in Malay
pedigri

Examples of pedigree in a sentence

  • Narita leans into his Ivy League pedigree as he fosters a nerdy shock jock impression.
  • Cruz has been able to use his pseudo-intellectualism and his Ivy League pedigree as a cudgel.
  • Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.

All 22 example sentences with pedigree

Forms of pedigree

Noun
pluralpedigrees
Verb
third-person singular presentpedigrees
present participlepedigreeing
past participlepedigreed
pastpedigreed

Plural of pedigree: pedigrees

Origin of pedigree

From Anglo-Norman pé de grue, a variant of Old French pié de gru (“foot of a crane”), from Latin pes (“foot”) + grus (“crane”).

Words formed from pedigree

Phrases with pedigree

Questions about pedigree

What does pedigree mean?
Pedigree means a chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
What is pedigree in Tamil?
Pedigree in Tamil is கிளைவழி (kiḷaivaḻi), கொடிவழி (koṭivaḻi), கால்வழி (kālvaḻi). See Pedigree meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pedigree?
Pedigree can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce pedigree?
Pedigree is pronounced /ˈpɛd.ɪ.ɡɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of pedigree?
The plural of pedigree is pedigrees.

Words near pedigree in the dictionary

  1. pediferous
  2. pediform
  3. pedigerous
  4. Pedigo
  5. Pedigos
  6. pedigree
  7. pedigree clause
  8. pedigree clauses
  9. pedigree collapse
  10. pedigreed
  11. pedigreeing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pedigree (page history and authors); pedigree (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedigree (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedigree (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pedigree (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਰਵਾ (Punjabi) (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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