BLOOD: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BLOOD?

Need another word that means the same as “blood”? Find 42 synonyms and 30 related words for “blood” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Blood” are: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, gore, lifeblood, bloodiness, family, house, dynasty, birth, extraction, derivation, genealogy, heritage, breeding, strain, race, roots, kinship, consanguinity, kin, kindred, relation, member of one's family, fop, beau, man about town, glamour boy

Blood as a Noun

Definitions of "Blood" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “blood” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets.
• People viewed as members of a group.
• Temperament or disposition.
• 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.
• Violence involving bloodshed.
• Blood samples or tests.
• A fellow black person.
• A dissolute man in fashionable society.
• A fashionable and dashing young man.
• A person of specified descent.
• An internal bodily fluid in invertebates which performs a similar function to blood in humans and other vertebrates.
• Fiery or passionate temperament.
• Family background; descent or lineage.
• The descendants of one individual.

Synonyms of "Blood" as a noun (42 Words)

ancestry	One’s family or ethnic descent. He was proud of his Irish ancestry.
beau	A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
birth	The process of giving birth. The birth of Socialist Realism.
blood line	The descendants of one individual.
bloodiness	A disposition to shed blood.
bloodline	Ancestry of a purebred animal. The survival of a legitimate royal bloodline.
breeding	The production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization. The flooding of the rivers is a trigger for breeding to start.
consanguinity	(anthropology) related by blood. The marriage was annulled on grounds of consanguinity.
derivation	The set of stages that link a sentence in a natural language to its underlying logical form. Music of Turkish derivation.
descent	A movement downward. His descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit.
dynasty	A succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field. The Guinness dynasty.
extraction	The ethnic origin of someone’s family. Mineral extraction.
family	A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. The family lived in a large house with a lot of land.
fop	A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
genealogy	The study and tracing of lines of descent. The genealogies of the kings of Mercia.
glamour boy	A male human offspring.
gore	Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948. The film omitted the blood and gore in order to avoid controversy.
heritage	A special or individual possession; an allotted portion. 60 miles of heritage coastline.
house	The people living in a house a household. My wife and I are moving to a new house.
kin	Animals or plants that are related to a particular species or kind. Dolphins whales and their kin.
kindred	Relationship by blood. Ties of kindred.
kinship	Blood relationship. Anthropology s kinship with the humanities.
lifeblood	The blood considered as the seat of vitality. Water is the lifeblood of India.
line	A dose of a powdered narcotic drug especially cocaine laid out in a line ready to be taken. A major shipping line.
line of descent	A conceptual separation or distinction.
lineage	A social group tracing its descent from a single ancestor. The chimpanzee and gorilla lineages.
man about town	Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage.
member of one's family	An organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations.
origin	The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero. The terminology has its origins in America.
parentage	The identity and origins of one’s parents. A boy of Jamaican parentage.
pedigree	The recorded ancestry or lineage of a person or family. The debate about pedigree and family fortunes.
profligate	A dissolute man in fashionable society. He is a drunkard and a profligate.
race	A series of races for horses or dogs held at a fixed time on a set course. Some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings.
rake	An implement similar to a rake used for other purposes e g by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table. Giving the lawn a rake.
rakehell	A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits. Her dissolute rakehell of a son Sir Felix.
relation	An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. International relations.
rip	A fraud or swindle a rip off. There was a rip in his pants.
roots	The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support. He went back to Sweden to search for his roots.
roue	A dissolute man in fashionable society.
stemma	A diagram showing the relationship between a text and its various manuscript versions.
stock	Farm animals such as cattle pigs and sheep bred and kept for their meat or milk livestock. Blue chip stocks.
strain	(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups. The telltale signs of nervous strain.

Usage Examples of "Blood" as a noun

• Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products.
• A ritual that fires up his blood.
• A group of young bloods.
• A commando operation full of blood and danger.
• The ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions.
• She must have Irish blood in her.
• A nurse was out on the corridor taking bloods from the patients.
• Any blood who opted out was ostracized.
• A mixed blood.
• We need more young blood in this organization.
• A person of hot blood.
• Drops of blood.
• His bloods were normal.

Associations of "Blood" (30 Words)

aorta	The main artery of the body, supplying oxygenated blood to the circulatory system. In humans it passes over the heart from the left ventricle and runs down in front of the backbone.
arterial	Of or involving or contained in the arteries. One of the main arterial routes from York.
artery	A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body. George Street main artery of Edinburgh s Golden Mile.
bloodstream	The blood flowing through the circulatory system.
capillary	A tube of small internal diameter holds liquid by capillary action. Capillary blood.
cardiovascular	Of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels. Increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease.
clog	Dance a clog dance. The market is being clogged by these operations.
clot	Form or cause to form clots. Watch where you re going you clot.
coagulate	Cause (a fluid) to change to a solid or semi-solid state. Blood had coagulated round the edges of the gash.
coronary	Obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot thrombus.
diabetes	A polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst.
embolism	An insertion into a calendar. Causes of cerebral embolism.
erythrocyte	A red blood cell, which (in humans) is typically a biconcave disc without a nucleus. Erythrocytes contain the pigment haemoglobin, which imparts the red colour to blood, and transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues.
glucose	A syrup containing glucose and other sugars made by hydrolysis of starch and used in the food industry.
hemoglobin	A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. Fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals.
hypertension	Abnormally high blood pressure.
inject	Take by injection. We injected the glucose into the patient s vein.
insulin	A hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans which regulates the amount of glucose in the blood The lack of insulin causes a form of diabetes.
intercellular	Located or occurring between cells. Intercellular spaces.
jugular	(of fish’s pelvic fins) located in front of the pectoral fins. He always goes for the jugular.
lipid	An oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents; essential structural component of living cells (along with proteins and carbohydrates.
lymphatic	Of or relating to or produced by lymph. The fluid is drained by the lymphatics and returned to the circulation.
oxygenation	The process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen. The oxygenation of the blood.
plasma	Physical chemistry a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons. Particles in space exist in the form of a plasma.
portal	A short vein that carries blood into the liver. A portal typically has search engines and free email and chat rooms etc.
primogenitor	An ancestor in the direct line.
pulmonary	Relating to the lungs. Pulmonary disease.
sepsis	The presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues.
vein	Make a veinlike pattern. Gold bearing quartz veins.
venous	Relating to a vein or the veins.