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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.
  2. n. Derivation.
  3. n. The descendants of a common ancestor considered to be the founder of the line.
  4. n. Variant of linage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Line of descent from an ancestor; hence, family; race; stock.
  2. n. Synonyms Genealogy, etc. (see pedigree), birth, extraction, ancestry, family, descent.
  3. n. Same as linage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  2. n. advertising A number of lines of text in a column.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the number of lines in a piece of printed material
  2. n. the descendants of one individual
  3. n. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  4. n. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
  5. n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea ("line"); see line. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English linage, lineage, from Old French lignage, from ligne, line; see line1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. progeny
  1. race
  1. descent
  1. family
  1. ancestry

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. number
  1. rate
  1. charge per unit

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. progenitor
  2. ancestry
  3. pedigree
  4. parentage
  5. precursor
  1. heritage
  2. ancestor
  3. differentiation
  4. descent
  5. T cell
  1. descendant
  2. origin
  3. inheritance
  4. genealogy
  5. dynasty
  1. renown
  2. subset
  3. myeloid
  4. nobility
  5. prerogative
  1. brotherhood
  2. personage
  3. birth
  4. caste
  5. extraction

reverse dictionary (57)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pedigree
  2. family
  3. extraction
  4. descent
  5. linage
  6. lignage
  7. lynage
  8. blood
  9. lording
  10. cytogeny
  11. germ-tract
  1. genealogical tree
  2. genealogy
  3. progenial
  4. progenity
  5. racial
  6. racially
  7. ancestry
  8. ancientry
  9. birthless
  10. engendrure
  11. high-blooded
  1. long-descended
  2. consanguineous
  3. purebred
  4. old money
  5. line
  6. parentage
  7. wellborn
  8. birth
  9. blood horse
  10. cross breeding
  11. well-born
  1. biological
  2. stock
  3. strain
  4. race
  5. tree
  6. royalty
  7. pureblood
  8. roots
  9. generous
  10. team
  11. unilateral
  1. thoroughbred
  2. nation
  3. offspring
  4. progeny
  5. spring
  6. succession
  7. gentry
  8. in
  9. maternal
  10. noble
  11. palingenesis
  1. ramage
  2. stirps

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  1. family
  1. relationships
  1. connections
  1. bi-sonic

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