genealogy
noun
a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
genealogies
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pluralof genealogy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Mazzeo alternates between the macro and micro, now giving us detailed genealogies, now discussing the shipbuilding industry and the place of women in 19th-century society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
An investigation by Reuters released Tuesday into the genealogies of “America’s political elite” found that President Joseph R. Biden and all former presidents still alive are direct descendants of slaveholders.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
And finally, as I worked out by tracing genealogies, when nobody was left alive to remember them, the dead person turned into a butterfly, a memory without a rememberer.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
Michel Foucault argued that tracing genealogies can help us expose shameful origins of practices and ideologies that foster oppression.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
They took turns reciting Homeric genealogies, full of falsifications and borrowings from real life, and sometimes they fought over this or that favorite real uncle or aunt, and had to bargain like casting directors.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
