Synonyms of the word

genealogy

• n. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
• n. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
• n. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

bailiwick

• n. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
• n. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.

clan

• n. (anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
• n. A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
• n. Any association of people behaving clannishly, including one's immediate family.
• n. (video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
• n. A badger colony.

discipline

• n. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
• n. An enforced compliance or control.
• n. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
• n. A state of order based on submission to authority.
• n. A punishment to train or maintain control.
• n. A whip used for self-flagellation.
• n. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
• n. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
• n. A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
• n. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
• v. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
• v. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
• v. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
• v. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

field

• n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
• n. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
• n. The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
• n. A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
• n. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
• n. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
• n. The extent of a given perception.
• n. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
• n. An area reserved for playing a game.
• n. A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
• n. (algebra) A commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse.
• n. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
• n. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
• n. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
• n. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
• n. A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
• n. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
• n. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by…
• n. (baseball) The outfield.
• n. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
• n. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
• v. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
• v. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball,…
• v. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
• v. (transitive) To answer; to address.
• v. (transitive) To defeat.
• v. (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
• v. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

kin

• n. Race; family; breed; kind.
• n. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
• n. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
• n. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
• n. Kind; sort; manner; way.
• adj. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
• n. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
• n. Alternative form of k'in.
• v. Pronunciation spelling of can.

kindred

• n. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin.
• n. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
• n. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
• n. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.
• adj. Of the same nature.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

subject

• adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
• adj. Conditional upon.
• adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
• adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
• n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses…
• n. An actor; one who takes action.
• n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
• n. A particular area of study.
• n. A citizen in a monarchy.
• n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
• n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
• n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
• n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with…
• n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
• v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially…

tribe

• n. A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
• n. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
• n. The collective noun for various animals.
• n. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
• n. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female…
• v. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.