What is another word for bloods?

Pronunciation: [blˈʌdz] (IPA)

Bloods is a term that is commonly associated with a specific gang in the United States. However, there are many words that can be used as synonyms for bloods or blood-related terms. Some of these synonyms include plasma, hemoglobin, erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and coagulation. Additionally, terms such as family, group, tribe, or clan can be used to suggest a group or community beyond the connotation of gang membership. These synonyms, when used correctly and effectively, can help to add variety and descriptive power to one's language by demonstrating an understanding of the nuances of vocabulary.

What are the hypernyms for Bloods?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Bloods

Just as if airs wasn't for anybody but high bloods!
"Maggie Miller"
Mary J. Holmes
Some of the younger bloods were for remaining and selling their lives dearly, but Ma would not hear to it.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
Thomas' full name was a rosary, if you like, of yeomen, of soldiers, of farmers, of artists, of gentle bloods, of dreamers.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath

Famous quotes with Bloods

  • Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Having so-called "blue-blood" does not automatically mean that person has class. It just means somewhere down the road someone in their family was once someone of note. It's been my experience that blue-bloods and real nobility and royalty never mix. (Or at least they do not mix well.)
    Sir Dennis Hamilton
  • One of the most curious of these frenzies of exclusion was that against the emancipation of the Jews. All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious, race that had ever lived in it - the race to whom we owed our religion and the purest spiritual stimulus and consolation to be found in all literature - a race in which ability seems as natural and hereditary as the curve of their noses, and whose blood, furtively mingling with the bluest bloods in Europe, has quickened them with its own indomitable impulsion.
    James Russell Lowell

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