Difference between Bloodline and Pedigree

What is the difference between Bloodline and Pedigree?

Bloodline as a noun is the abstract link between a person and their ancestors. while Pedigree as a noun is a chart, list or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.

Bloodline

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The abstract link between a person and their ancestors. The pedigree of an animal.

Pedigree

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A chart, list or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.Good breeding or ancestry.A history or provenance.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a pedigree.Purebred.

Example sentence: We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight.

We hope you now know whether to use Bloodline or Pedigree in your sentence.

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