Need another word that means the same as “lineage”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “lineage” in this overview.
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The synonyms of “Lineage” are: linage, ancestry, derivation, filiation, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock, family, birth
Lineage as a Noun
Definitions of "Lineage" as a noun
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “lineage” as a noun can have the following definitions:
- A social group tracing its descent from a single ancestor.
- A sequence of species each of which is considered to have evolved from its predecessor.
- The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
- The descendants of one individual.
- The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.
- Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.
- A sequence of cells in the body which developed from a common ancestral cell.
- A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted.
- Direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.
Synonyms of "Lineage" as a noun (17 Words)
ancestry | The origin or background of something. The book traces the ancestry of women s poetry. |
birth | The process of giving birth. The mother is English by birth. |
blood | Violence involving bloodshed. Any blood who opted out was ostracized. |
blood line | People viewed as members of a group. |
bloodline | The descendants of one individual. The survival of a legitimate royal bloodline. |
derivation | The process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation. Singer from sing or undo from do are examples of derivations. |
descent | A downward slope. His descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit. |
family | All the descendants of a common ancestor. The house has been owned by the same family for 300 years. |
filiation | Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline. The filiation of many of his ideas from those developed by Carpenter. |
linage | The number of lines in a piece of printed material. |
line | A contour or outline considered as a feature of design or composition. Passengers were hit by delays caused by leaves on the line. |
line of descent | A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power. |
origin | An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. Origin in sensation. |
parentage | The descendants of one individual. A boy of Jamaican parentage. |
pedigree | The record of descent of an animal, showing it to be pure-bred. My host showed me his family pedigree. |
stemma | A recorded genealogy of a family; a family tree. |
stock | A portion of a company s stock as held by an individual or group as an investment. His stock was so high he could have been elected mayor. |
Usage Examples of "Lineage" as a noun
- Great families and their lineages.
- His entire lineage has been warriors.
- The chimpanzee and gorilla lineages.
- The myeloid lineage.
- A Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage.
Associations of "Lineage" (30 Words)
ancestor | An early version of a machine, system, etc. This instrument is an ancestor of the lute. |
ancestral | Of, belonging to, or inherited from an ancestor or ancestors. Ancestral home. |
ancestry | One’s family or ethnic descent. He was proud of his Irish ancestry. |
antecedent | Denoting or counting as an antecedent. Her early life and antecedents have been traced. |
ascendant | Most powerful or important or influential. Rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage. |
birthright | A particular right of possession or privilege a person has from birth, especially as an eldest son. She saw a liberal education as the birthright of every child. |
blood | An internal bodily fluid in invertebates which performs a similar function to blood in humans and other vertebrates. A nurse was out on the corridor taking bloods from the patients. |
clan | A group of people with a strong common interest. Civil strife has followed as rival clans jockey for power. |
ewe | Female sheep. |
family | A person having kinship with another or others. The family lived in a large house with a lot of land. |
fleece | Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on used for clothing. A reversible fleece jacket. |
forebear | An ancestor. Generations of his forebears had lived in London. |
forefather | A member of the past generations of one’s family or people; an ancestor. Our forefathers brought forth a great nation. |
genealogy | The study and tracing of lines of descent. The genealogies of the kings of Mercia. |
hometown | The town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence. He never went back to his hometown again. |
hominoid | Relating to hominoid primates. |
inbreeding | The act of mating closely related individuals. Persistent inbreeding has produced an unusually high frequency of sufferers from this disease. |
lineal | Arranged in a line. Lineal heirs. |
mulatto | An offspring of a black and a white parent. |
parentage | The descendants of one individual. A boy of Jamaican parentage. |
patriarch | Title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem. He s the patriarch of all spin doctors. |
patrimony | An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture. Patrimony laws. |
pedigree | A genealogical table. With a pedigree equal to many of the gentry. |
primogenitor | An ancestor, especially the earliest ancestor of a people; a progenitor. |
progenitor | A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent. The progenitor of modern jazz. |
purebred | A pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses. |
thoroughbred | A horse of a thoroughbred breed. Some riders will only buy thoroughbred horses. |
unmixed | Not mixed. Bold unmixed colours. |
worship | The activity of worshipping. She adores her sons and they worship her. |