Lineage
['lɪnɪɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) the descendants of one individual; 'his entire lineage has been warriors'.
Edited by Katy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Progeny, race, family, house, genealogy, descent, descendants, line, birth, breed, extraction, ancestry.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Descent, house, family, race, ancestry, progeny, breed, descendants
ANT:Ancestor, founder, source, origin
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Examples
- I have never heard anything to show that my son's lineage is not as good as the Vyes'--perhaps better. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What is his name and lineage? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am of England, Sir Knight, and speak the English tongue, although my dress and my lineage belong to another climate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The stranger must first show, said Malvoisin, that he is good knight, and of honourable lineage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the last thirty-five years of the Nineteenth Century there has grown up into the full stature of mechanical majority this stalwart son of electrical lineage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- What is thine own name and lineage? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Though I never knew what they were (being in Welsh), further than that they were highly eulogistic of the lineage of Morgan ap-Kerrig. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As to his lineage and wealth, both were, of course, far beyond her claims. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My name, said the Knight, raising his helmet, is better known, my lineage more pure, Malvoisin, than thine own. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nothing that we know of in the circumstances of their birth or lineage will explain their appearance. Plato. The Republic.
- My mother was an Anversoise, though she came of French lineage, which is the reason I speak French. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I tell thee, the Princes of the House of Anjou confer not their wards on men of such lineage as thine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We trace our lineage, unbroken, direct to the Tree of Life which flourished in the centre of the Valley Dor twenty-three million years ago. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was a young prince, the scion of a proud house that traced its lineage back to the grand old days of Rome well nigh two thousand years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Princes and nobles pride themselves upon lineages they can trace back some hundreds of years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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