blood tie
Shared ancestral connection
A blood tie is a family relationship based on biological descent rather than marriage or adoption.
The phrase emphasizes genetic connection: Blood ties don't automatically create emotional bonds.
Often used in plural to refer to family relationships generally: She felt the pull of blood ties drawing her back home.
- kinshipState of being related
- family treeChart of ancestors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- familyRelated people together
- next of kinNearest living family members
lineage · heredity · bond · family bond · relation · clan · kin · kith and kin · inheritance · DNA · offspring · dynasty · roots · flesh · descendant · tribal · maternal · paternal
- bondsbond, corporate bond, corporate bonds, government bond, municipal bond
- tribal lifetribe, tribesman, chieftain, tribal chief, tribal elder
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, noble houses, dynasty, genealogy
- tiesnecktie, bowtie, cravat, ascot, clip-on
blood tiechosen family
Intentionally formed kinship network
friendship · marriage · adoption · in-laws · sworn brotherhood
blood tieacquaintanceship
State of knowing someone
business relationship · fair-weather friend · marriage · stranger · estrangement
blood, tie, bloods, bloody, bloodied, bloodying, bloodless, bloodline, bloodlines