Lineage

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Line of descent from an ancestor; hence, family; race; stock.
  • noun. Synonyms Genealogy, etc. (see pedigree), birth, extraction, ancestry, family, descent.
  • noun. Same as linage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • noun. A number of lines of text in a column.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the number of lines in a piece of printed material
  • noun. the descendants of one individual
  • noun. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  • noun. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
  • noun. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
  • Word Usage
    "ECW is an abomination, but that's only because, technically, it's supposed to be the continuation of the old fed - at least as far as the title lineage was concerned."
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