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paternity

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Noun
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pa=ter=ni=ty

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun paternity has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

paternityn. [L. paternitas: cf. F. paternité. See Paternal.].
  •  The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.  [1913 Webster]
    "The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Origin; authorship.  [1913 Webster]
    "The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paternity, n.
1 fatherhood.
2 one's paternal origin.
3 the source or authorship of a thing.

Idiom
paternity test a blood test to determine whether a man may be or cannot be the father of a particular child.
Etymology
ME f. OF paternit{eacute} or LL paternitas

THESAURUS

paternity

affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, descent, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, heritage, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, parentage, paternalness, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, stock, strain, ties of blood

ROGET THESAURUS

paternity

Paternity

N paternity, parentage, consanguinity, parent, father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba, genitor, progenitor, procreator, ancestor, grandsire, grandfather, great- grandfather, fathership, fatherhood, mabap, house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan, genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry, forefathers, forbears, patriarchs, motherhood, maternity, mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother, paternal, parental, maternal, family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal, avi numerantur avorum, happy he with such a mother, hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo, philosophia stemma non inspicit.

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.

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