Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.
- n. Derivation.
- n. The descendants of a common ancestor considered to be the founder of the line.
- n. Variant of linage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
- n. A number of lines of text in a column.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Line of descent from an ancestor; hence, family; race; stock.
- n. Synonyms Genealogy, etc. (see pedigree), birth, extraction, ancestry, family, descent.
- n. Same as linage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the number of lines in a piece of printed material
- n. the descendants of one individual
- n. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- n. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
- n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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ECW is an abomination, but that's only because, technically, it's supposed to be the continuation of the old fed - at least as far as the title lineage was concerned.
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The number one issue that drives deals in our model in our business is what we call lineage transition issues-estate planning, death, disability, disease, divorce-those are the kinds of things where there is something going on within the ownership, and that's why most deals that we close, we've been talking to for four, five, six, seven years of relationship building and know what is transpiring within the ownership of that company.
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· The new title lineage feature allows you to pre-set histories for any championship in the game, allowing wrestler's old title reigns to be recognized.
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The new title lineage feature allows you to pre-set histories for any championship in the game, allowing wrestler's old title reigns to be recognized.
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So of course the official Japanese lineage is entirely male.
Norman Fischer: For Full Inclusion of Women in American Soto Zen Buddhism and All Religions
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The singular “they”: Its lineage is more distinguished than you might think [...]
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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I suspect that there is a direct lineage from the SR polemics of the 30s to the debates in kids books today -- this is Julia Mickenberg territory.
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Our lineage is about operating in the personal realm, while the men take care of the political, civic, global.
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In an instant, the artifice falls and a lineage is traced.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)
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That Loony Toons lineage is in evidence here, but so is a certain elegant 1940s line of the sort unlikely to penetrate that thoroughly middle-American institution.
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