lineage [lin-ee-ij] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
lineage [lin-ee-ij]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ancestry
Synonyms: birth, blood, breed, clan, descendants, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, stirps, stock, succession, tribe
Notes: linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent
Main Entry: birth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heritage
Synonyms: ancestry, background, blood, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebears, genealogy, heritance, legacy, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, position, race, rank, station, status, stock, strain
Main Entry: blood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ancestry
Synonyms: birth, consanguinity, descendants, descent, extraction, family, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, origin, pedigree, relations, stock
Example Sentences
  • Ironically, his own lineage and marriage could have been experiments as well.
  • And it becomes harder to convert it to something else, because it belongs to a different lineage than some other kind of machine.
  • But this isn't necessarily an adaptive feature of the entire primate lineage.
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Main Entry: breed
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: kind, class
Synonyms: brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, likes, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety
Main Entry: breeding
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cultivation of person
Synonyms: ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity
Main Entry: caste
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social class
Synonyms: cultural level, degree, estate, grade, lineage, order, position, race, rank, social order, species, sphere, standing, station, status, stratum
Main Entry: class
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: societal group, background
Synonyms: ancestry, birth, bourgeoisie, breed, caliber, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, condition, connection, coterie, cultural level, degree, derivation, descent, estate, extraction, family, genealogy, grade, hierarchy, influence, intelligentsia, league, lineage, moiety, nobility, origin, pecking order, pedigree, pigeonhole, place, position, prestige, quality, sect, social rank, source, sphere, standing, state, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, the right stuff, tier, title
Main Entry: consanguinity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: family relationship
Synonyms: affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain
Notes: an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship
Main Entry: descent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: line of ancestry
Synonyms: blood, extraction, family, family tree, genealogy, heredity, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, relationship
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