LINEAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does lineage mean?
• LINEAGE (noun)
The noun LINEAGE has 5 senses:
1. the descendants of one individual
2. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
3. the number of lines in a piece of printed material
4. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
5. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Familiarity information: LINEAGE used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• LINEAGE (noun)
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
lineage; pedigree; bloodline; blood line; ancestry; stemma; blood; line of descent; parentage; origin; descent; stock; line
Context example:
his entire lineage has been warriors
Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
breed (a special lineage)
side (a family line of descent)
Meaning:
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
filiation; line of descent; lineage; descent
Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):
bilateral descent (line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family)
unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)
Meaning:
The number of lines in a piece of printed material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
linage; lineage
Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):
number (a concept of quantity derived from zero and units)
Meaning:
A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
linage; lineage
Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):
charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)
Meaning:
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ancestry; filiation; derivation; lineage
Hypernyms ("lineage" is a kind of...):
hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)
Attribute:
purebred (bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain)
crossbred (bred from a mixture of breeds or strains)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lineage"):
breed; strain (a lineage or race of people)
descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)
bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)
