Dictionary

family tree en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (qualifier:genealogy) A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
2. (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • We're from the family tree of old school hip-hop / Kick off your shoes and relax your socks 1998, “Intergalactic”, performed by Beastie Boys:
   • 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:
3. A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
4. A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
5. 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.

Forms

Hypernyms

tree

Relateds

genealogy

Translations (59)

cmn 家譜 /家谱 (family tree) · gl árbore xenealóxica (family tree) · cy achres (family tree) · fr arbre généalogique (family tree) · el γενεαλογικό δέντρο (family tree) · he אִילַן יוּחֲסִין (family tree) · nrf arbre dé fanmil'ye (family tree) · vi gia phổ (family tree) · ca arbre genealògic (family tree) · tr soyağacı (family tree) · vi phả đồ (family tree) · ota شجره (family tree) · gd craobh-shloinntearachd (family tree) · vi cây gia hệ (family tree) · uz shajara (family tree) · ro arbore genealogic (family tree) · bg родословно дърво (family tree) · ar شَجَرَة النَّسَب (family tree) · fi sukupuu (family tree) · ru генеалоги́ческое де́рево (family tree) · nb stamtre (family tree) · ga craobh ghinealaigh (family tree) · da slægtstræ (family tree) · sv släktträd (family tree) · id silsilah (family tree) · hy տոհմածառ (family tree) · de Stammbaum (family tree) · fa شجره (family tree) · cs rodokmen (family tree) · nn stamtre (family tree) · hu családfa (family tree) · vi sơ đồ gia hệ (family tree) · az şəcərə (family tree) · vi gia phả (family tree) · ms pohon keluarga (family tree) · ms pokok keluarga (family tree) · el οικογενειακό δέντρο (family tree) · vi cây phả hệ (family tree) · da anetavle (family tree) · tr şecere (family tree) · la stemma (family tree) · sv härstamning (family tree) · pt árvore genealógica (family tree) · kk шежіре (family tree) · es árbol genealógico (family tree) · nl stamboom (family tree) · ja 家系図 (family tree) · lb Stammbam (family tree) · cmn 譜系圖 /谱系图 (family tree) · hi वंशावली (family tree) · ur شجرہ (family tree) · lt giminės medis (family tree) · it albero genealogico (family tree) · fa دودمانه (family tree) · is niðjatal (family tree) · da stamtavle (family tree) · pl drzewo genealogiczne (family tree) · ba шәжәрә (family tree) · chg شجره (family tree)