Associations to the word «Genealogy»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

GENEALOGY, noun. Successive generations of kin.
GENEALOGY, noun. The study or investigation of ancestry and family history.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky