Lineage

Noun

 * 1) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
 * 2)  A number of lines of text in a column.
 * 3) * 1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
 * Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

Related terms

 * line
 * lineal
 * linear

Adjectives for Lineage
ancient; imperial; injured; honorable.

Thesaurus
Indian file, affiliation, aftermath, ancestry, animal kingdom, apparentation, array, articulation, bank, birth, blood, bloodline, branch, breed, brood, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, children, clan, class, coming after, common ancestry, concatenation, conclusion, connection, consanguinity, consecution, consecutiveness, consequence, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, cycle, deme, derivation, descendant, descendants, descent, direct line, distaff side, drone, dynasty, effect, endless belt, endless round, extension, extraction, family, family tree, female line, file, filiation, folk, following, forebears, forefathers, fruit, gamut, genealogy, gens, gradation, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heir, heirs, hostages to fortune, house, hum, inheritors, issue, kids, kind, kindred, line, line of descent, little ones, logical sequence, male line, matriclan, monotone, nation, new generation, nexus, offspring, order, order of succession, origin, parentage, patriclan, pedigree, pendulum, people, periodicity, phratry, phyle, phylum, plant kingdom, plenum, posteriority, posterity, postposition, powder train, procession, progeny, progression, prolongation, queue, race, range, rank, recurrence, reticulation, rising generation, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seed, sept, sequel, sequence, series, side, single file, sons, spear side, species, spectrum, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, successor, suffixation, swath, sword side, thread, tier, totem, train, treasures, tribe, windrow, younglings, youngsters

Alternative forms

 * linage

Etymology
From linage:, from  linage:, from ligne:, from  linea:; see line.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: произход
 * Catalan: llinatge
 * Dutch:, nakomelingschap, , afstamming
 * Finnish: sukujuuret, esivanhemmat
 * French:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: ,


 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese: linhagem, descendência
 * Russian:, родословная
 * Scottish Gaelic: sìol, sinnsearachd , sliochd
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: lijnental
 * Italian: righe


 * Swahili: