lineage

lineage
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. ancestry, family, pedigree, posterity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. forefathers, ancestors, genealogy, progenitors; see family 1 , heredity .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
descent, ancestry, stock, family, strain, bloodline, genealogy, heredity, succession, extraction.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. A group of people sharing common ancestry: clan, family, house, kindred, stock, tribe. Idioms: flesh and blood, kith and kin. See KIN.

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