lineage   (Sound)

The noun lineage has 5 senses

• lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock -- (the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors")


• descent, line of descent, lineage, filiation -- (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)


• linage, lineage -- (the number of lines in a piece of printed material)


• linage, lineage -- (a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted)


• ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation -- (inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline)