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FAMILY LINE

Pronunciation (US):

• FAMILY LINE (noun)
The noun FAMILY LINE has 1 sense:

1. people descended from a common ancestor

Familiarity information: FAMILY LINE used as a noun is very rare.

• FAMILY LINE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

People descended from a common ancestor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family line; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept; family; folk

Context example:

his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

Hypernyms ("family line" is a kind of...):

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "family line"):

people (members of a family line)

homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))

house (aristocratic family line)

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

gens; name (family based on male descent)

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
(English proverb)
"Whose end of tongue is sharp, the edge of his head must be hard"
(Breton proverb)
"The man who wanted to milk the male goat failed."
(Arabic proverb)
"East or West, home is best."
(Czech proverb)

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