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. 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.

2. Freedman Fowler:

   Acristavus does not have a crest. The top of its skull is flat. Brachylophosaurus has a large, flat, paddle-shaped crest that completely covers the back of the top of its skull, it is a perfect example of evolution within a single lineage of dinosaurs over millions of years.

3. Jeff Bock:

   She has a hot streak going like no other comedian, male or female, working today, you have to consider the lineage of Eddie Murphy in the ’80s, Jim Carrey in the ’90s and Adam Sandler in the aughts. She is their heir apparent.

4. Daniel Lieberman:

   It's a glimpse into what set the human lineage on a separate evolutionary path from our ape cousins.

5. Frank Lyko:

   What we see in slow motion with the marbled crayfish evolution is something that happens during the very early stages of tumour formation, in many ways, the invasive expansion of [the marbled crayfish] is analogous to a cancerous lineage spreading asexually at the expense of its host.