Other forms: lineages
The word lineage is used to describe everyone who descends from a particular ancestor. Mozart had six children, but none of them had children of their own, so the composer’s lineage ended after one generation.
If you put an adjective like artistic or spiritual before lineage, it becomes clear you're talking about people who are related by ideas or attitude, not by blood. There are many composers, even today, who trace their musical lineage to Mozart, even though his actual lineage ended in the 19th century.
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the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitorssynonyms: descent, filiation, line of descenttypes:bilateral descentline of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the familyunilateral descentline of descent traced through one side of the familytype of:family relationship, kinship, relationship(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
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the descendants of one individual“his entire lineage has been warriors”synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
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inherited properties shared with others of your bloodlinesynonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiationtypes:full blooddescent from parents both of one pure breedtype of:hereditary pattern, inheritance(genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
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the number of lines in a piece of printed material
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a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submittedsynonyms: linage
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Vocabulary lists containing lineage
Be a kindred spirit by learning this list of vocabulary related to family.
This memoir recounts Noah's childhood in South Africa during the last years of apartheid.