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# parentage

«parentage» in Mova's school dictionary: **who your parents are** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (parentage — usually uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your parentage is who your parents are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#m1)

2) It can also mean the family or country your parents come from, your origin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is a slightly formal word for where someone comes from; old stories may make a mystery of a hero's parentage. In science, a plant or animal's parentage is which parents it was bred from. Phrases: of mixed parentage, of Irish parentage, unknown parentage.

### examples

- The orphan in the story did not know his parentage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x1)
- She is of Irish and Jamaican parentage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x2)
- The puppy's parentage was written on its papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x3)
- The prince's true parentage was a secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x4)
- Scientists checked the parentage of the new apple tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x5)
- Nobody should be judged by their parentage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x6)
- But some of those who remembered Brah’s parentage thought that as Bran herself had come from the Shi so this fawn might have come out of the Shi also. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable: no «a», no plural. Formal; in everyday talk people say «who your parents are» or «family background». Do not confuse with «parenting», which means looking after and raising children.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parentage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.