Synonyms for lineage
ˈlɪn i ɪdʒlin·eage

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1. lineage

   Synonyms:
   descent, house, family, race, ancestry, progeny, breed, descendants

   Antonyms:
   ancestor, founder, source, origin

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1. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun

   the descendants of one individual

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"

   Synonyms:
   personal credit line, inception, cable, business, billet, stemma, origination, rakehell, store, beginning, ancestry, filiation, roue, agate line, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, declivity, farm animal, linage, seam, inventory, bloodline, root, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, production line, job, occupation, assembly line, parenthood, contrast, downslope, gillyflower, birth, product line, livestock, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, rake, melody, decline, derivation, strain, neckcloth, dividing line, rootage, transmission line, breed, ocellus, gunstock, line of descent, argumentation, profligate, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, fund, rip, line of business, pedigree, extraction, declination, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, line of products, origin, stock certificate, fall, communication channel, caudex, telephone line, credit line, declension, source, broth, line of reasoning, tune, note, simple eye, argument

2. descent, line of descent, lineage, filiationnoun

   the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

   Synonyms:
   declension, pedigree, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, blood, extraction, decline, declination, origin, parentage, downslope, line of descent, declivity, line, blood line, derivation, fall, bloodline, filiation, linage

3. linage, lineagenoun

   the number of lines in a piece of printed material

   Synonyms:
   origin, stock, blood line, line, parentage, bloodline, derivation, pedigree, stemma, blood, filiation, line of descent, ancestry, descent, linage

4. linage, lineagenoun

   a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

   Synonyms:
   origin, stock, blood line, line, parentage, bloodline, derivation, pedigree, stemma, blood, filiation, line of descent, ancestry, descent, linage

5. ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiationnoun

   inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

   Synonyms:
   parentage, etymologizing, stock, ancestry, stemma, descent, blood, deriving, origin, linage, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, bloodline, filiation, derivation

Matched Categories

1. • Genealogy
   • Inheritance
   • Kinship
   • Number
   • Rate

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1. lineagenoun

   Synonyms:
   progeny, race, family, house, genealogy, descent, descendants, line, birth, breed, extraction, ancestry

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1. List of paraphrases for "lineage":

   bloodline, descent, line, strain

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How to use lineage in a sentence?

1. Andrew Pekosz:

   The data from Public Health England has shown that Public Health England outcompeted the Alpha variant in that population. That is strong head to head evidence that Public Health England is Public Health England, here in the US it is doing very similar things. It seems to be on its way to becoming the dominant lineage in the US.

2. Nadine Pellegrini:

   The origin of the lineage of terrorism doesn't matter, what matters are his beliefs in terror, his actions.

3. Daniel Lieberman:

   It's a glimpse into what set the human lineage on a separate evolutionary path from our ape cousins.

4. Jonah Choiniere:

   The name reflects the great size of the animal as well as the fact that its lineage appeared at the origins of sauropod dinosaurs, it honors both the recent and ancient heritage of southern Africa.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   What we now know from this study, namely the JJ and the Novavax study, that antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage, do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wakeup call to all of us that we will be dealing, as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunological pressure, that we will continue to see the evolution of mutants.