blood
noun
[ blʌd ]
• the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
• "drops of blood"
• violence involving bloodshed.
• "a commando operation full of blood and danger"
• fiery or passionate temperament.
• "a ritual that fires up his blood"
• family background; descent or lineage.
• "she must have Irish blood in her"
Similar:
ancestry,
lineage,
line,
bloodline,
descent,
parentage,
family,
house,
dynasty,
birth,
extraction,
derivation,
origin,
genealogy,
heritage,
breeding,
stock,
strain,
race,
pedigree,
roots,
kinship,
consanguinity,
kin,
kindred,
relation,
member of one's family,
next of kin,
blood relationship,
relationship,
kinsman,
kinswoman,
• a fashionable and dashing young man.
• "a group of young bloods"
blood
verb
• initiate (someone) in a particular activity.
• "clubs are too slow to blood young players"
• smear the face of (a novice) with the blood of the kill.
Origin:
Old English blōd, of Germanic origin; related to German Blut and Dutch bloed .
Blood
noun
• a member of a North American people belonging to the Blackfoot Confederacy.
of the blood
• royal.
