lineage
descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Other meanings
A number of lines of text in a column.
A fee or rate paid per line of text.
Related words
- bilineage
- hemilineage
- interlineage
- intralineage
- lineaged
- lineaging
- matrilineage
- multilineage
- osteolineage
- patrilineage
- sublineage
- superlineage
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "linea".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lineage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.