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# parentage

noun (parentage — usually uncountable)

«parentage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Your parentage is who your parents are. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x1)
- She is of Irish and Jamaican parentage. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x2)
- The puppy's parentage was written on its papers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x3)
- The prince's true parentage was a secret. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x4)
- Scientists checked the parentage of the new apple tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/#x5)
- Nobody should be judged by their parentage. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «parentage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parentage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«parentage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/parentage.html) on Mova free.