Definitions

lineage

[lin-ee-ij] / ˈlɪn i ɪdʒ /

NOUN

ancestry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clan descent genealogy origin pedigree

STRONG

birth blood breed descendants extraction family folk forebears heredity house kin kindred line offspring progenitors progeny race stock succession tribe

WEAK

stirps

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

Example Sentences

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The specialty space was so in demand that the world’s largest cold-storage operator by capacity, Lineage, went public in the largest IPO in the U.S. in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Other banks or fintech companies that San Francisco-based Synapse partnered with included Tennessee-based Lineage Bank, as well as savings rewards company Yotta, a company that gives prizes to customers who save money.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

Lineage plasticity has been observed in multiple tissues as a natural response to wounding and an unnatural feature of cancer.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2024

Lineage A was also detected in two Covid patients living near the market.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

The latter Princess, from what Lineage soever Heaven had sent her, had Qualities that would have procur'd her respect: Her Beauty was regular, and tho' she was but little in stature, her Air was majestic.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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