Synonyms for lineage
ˈlɪn i ɪdʒlin·eage

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1. lineage

   Synonyms:
   descent, house, family, race, ancestry, progeny, breed, descendants

   Antonyms:
   ancestor, founder, source, origin

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1. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun

   the descendants of one individual

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"

   Synonyms:
   personal credit line, inception, cable, business, billet, stemma, origination, rakehell, store, beginning, ancestry, filiation, roue, agate line, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, declivity, farm animal, linage, seam, inventory, bloodline, root, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, production line, job, occupation, assembly line, parenthood, contrast, downslope, gillyflower, birth, product line, livestock, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, rake, melody, decline, derivation, strain, neckcloth, dividing line, rootage, transmission line, breed, ocellus, gunstock, line of descent, argumentation, profligate, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, fund, rip, line of business, pedigree, extraction, declination, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, line of products, origin, stock certificate, fall, communication channel, caudex, telephone line, credit line, declension, source, broth, line of reasoning, tune, note, simple eye, argument

2. descent, line of descent, lineage, filiationnoun

   the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

   Synonyms:
   declension, pedigree, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, blood, extraction, decline, declination, origin, parentage, downslope, line of descent, declivity, line, blood line, derivation, fall, bloodline, filiation, linage

3. linage, lineagenoun

   the number of lines in a piece of printed material

   Synonyms:
   origin, stock, blood line, line, parentage, bloodline, derivation, pedigree, stemma, blood, filiation, line of descent, ancestry, descent, linage

4. linage, lineagenoun

   a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

   Synonyms:
   origin, stock, blood line, line, parentage, bloodline, derivation, pedigree, stemma, blood, filiation, line of descent, ancestry, descent, linage

5. ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiationnoun

   inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

   Synonyms:
   parentage, etymologizing, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, blood, deriving, origin, linage, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, bloodline, filiation, derivation

Matched Categories

1. • Genealogy
   • Inheritance
   • Kinship
   • Number
   • Rate

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1. lineagenoun

   Synonyms:
   progeny, race, family, house, genealogy, descent, descendants, line, birth, breed, extraction, ancestry

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1. List of paraphrases for "lineage":

   bloodline, descent, line, strain

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1. Jonah Choiniere:

   The name reflects the great size of the animal as well as the fact that its lineage appeared at the origins of sauropod dinosaurs, it honors both the recent and ancient heritage of southern Africa.

2. Caitlin Pepperell:

   The strain from Troy belongs to a lineage that is not commonly associated with human disease in the modern world, we speculate that human infections in the ancient world were acquired from a pool of bacteria that moved readily between humans, livestock and the environment.

3. Clifford Villalon:

   It is worth living, knowing your origin is from a good lineage and honorable bloodline.

4. Kasetsart University:

   King Maha Vajiralongkorn kindly wished that Khun Thong Daeng's lineage be extended so that the people may remember late King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Khun Thong Daeng.

5. Eric Adams:

   He's a global embarrassment because this is not what we do as Americans, all of us, and I'm sure if he goes into his lineage, he came from somewhere and if his ancestors were treated the way he's treated these asylum seekers and migrants, then he would not be where he is right now.