Usually means: Legal identification of a child's father.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word paternity:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. paternity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paternity: Merriam-Webster
  3. paternity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paternity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paternity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paternity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paternity, paternity: Wordnik
  8. paternity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paternity: Wiktionary
  10. paternity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paternity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paternity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. paternity: Dictionary.com
  14. paternity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. paternity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Paternity (House), Paternity (film), Paternity (law), Paternity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Paternity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. paternity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. paternity: Rhymezone
  20. Paternity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. paternity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. paternity: FreeDictionary.org
  23. paternity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paternity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. paternity: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. paternity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Paternity (Disambiguation), Paternity (law), paternity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paternity (Disambiguation), paternity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Paternity (Disambiguation), paternity: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. paternity: Evolution Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Fatherhood, the state or quality of being a father.
noun:  Parental descent from a father.
noun:  (law) Legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child.
noun:  (figuratively) Authorship.

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