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वंश — meaning in English

vañś

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • caste noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  • clan noun A large group of related families claiming descent from a common ancestor.
  • family noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
  • genus noun A biological classification rank grouping closely related species, sitting below family and above species.
  • lineage noun A line of descent traced from an ancestor; a family's ancestry or a sequence of generations.
  • race noun A contest to see who is fastest at reaching a goal.

Senses

वंश is used for these senses in English:

  • clan group having common ancestor
  • caste hereditary social class
  • race a large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage
  • family group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
  • genus rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species
  • breed race or lineage

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

caste — full definition

  1. noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  2. noun Any rigid, hereditary social division that limits people to a fixed class.

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