| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A group of people sharing common ancestry: clan, family, house, kindred, lineage, tribe. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See KIN. 3. A supply stored or hidden for future use: backlog, cache, hoard, inventory, nest egg, reserve, reservoir, stockpile, store, treasure. Slang : stash. See COLLECT. | | VERB: | To have for sale: carry, keep. See KEEP. | | ADJECTIVE: | Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See GOOD, USUAL.
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