lineage
Plural: lineages
Noun
- Direct descent from an ancestor or family line.
- the descendants of one individual
- "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- the number of lines in a piece of printed material
- a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
- A number of lines of text in a column.
- A fee or rate paid per line of text.
Examples
- Tracing the LINEAGE of her successful Scrabble plays revealed a pattern of strategic tile usage.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age.
Synonyms
ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, derivation, descent, filiation, linage, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
Scrabble Score: 8
lineage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlineage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lineage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary