Stirps [noun]

Definition of Stirps:

ancestry

Synonyms of Stirps:

● Origin

● Clan

● Pedigree

● Genealogy

● Descent

● Tribe

● Progeny

● Family

● House

● Kin

● Breed

● Kindred

● Extraction

● Heredity

● Race

● Blood

● Birth

● Succession

● Line

● Offspring

● Folk

● Stock

● Descendants

● Forebears


Opposite/Antonyms of Stirps:

● Parent


Sentence/Example of Stirps:

Some took the additional name from the stirps instead of from the gns, that is, from the cognmen instead of from the nmen.

The principal characters of the story, belonging to the stirps Muciana, are purely imaginary.

Among the Iroquois descent was never reckoned through the male line, the stirps being always a woman.