- lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction: She could trace her lineage to the early Pilgrims.
- the line of descendants of a particular ancestor; family.
- direct descent from an ancestor, esp a line of descendants from one ancestor
- a less common word for derivation
- a variant spelling of linage
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