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. Daniel Lieberman:

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

2. Anthony Fauci:

   What we now know from this study, namely the JJ and the Novavax study, that antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage, do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wakeup call to all of us that we will be dealing, as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunological pressure, that we will continue to see the evolution of mutants.

3. Eric Adams:

   He's a global embarrassment because this is not what we do as Americans, all of us, and I'm sure if he goes into his lineage, he came from somewhere and if his ancestors were treated the way he's treated these asylum seekers and migrants, then he would not be where he is right now.

4. 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.

5. The Buddhist spiritual leader:

   If you really consider me as your friend, then please be united irrespective of your region or religious lineage.