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How to pronounce lineage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms linage
Type of number
Type Words
Synonyms ancestry, derivation, filiation
Type of hereditary pattern, inheritance
Has types extraction, descent, origin, bloodline, pedigree
Type Words
Synonyms ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
Type of family tree, genealogy
Has types kinfolk, family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, side


his entire lineage has been warriors.
Type Words
Synonyms linage
Type of rate, charge per unit
Type Words
Synonyms descent, filiation, line of descent
Type of relationship, family relationship, kinship
Has types bilateral descent, unilateral descent

Examples of lineage

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Just what royal lineage does to the value of an estate is difficult to pinpoint.
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Each hadith also includes the professed lineage of reporters of the short story.
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Its lineage goes back to cliff-dwelling perennials that cling to rocks in Nepal.
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In modern times, the Nyingma lineage has been centered in Kham in eastern Tibet.
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He was of noble lineage, being a descendant of the Ming dynasty prince Zhu Quan.
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However, there is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations.
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He attained the title in 1905 when God mandated him to continue the Tao lineage.
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Mudrarakshasa uses terms like kula-hina and Vrishala for Chandragupta's lineage.
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This law has maintained the tradition of exclusively patriarchal tribal lineage.
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More examples
  • The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
  • Descent: the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
  • Linage: the number of lines in a piece of printed material
  • Ancestry: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
  • "Lineage" is episode 7 of season 5 in the television show Angel.
  • Kinship is a relationship between any entities that share a genealogical origin, through either biological, cultural, or historical descent. And descent groups, lineages, etc. are treated in their own subsections, see Contents below.
  • A lineage in Buddhism is a record of teachers and their disciples, or students. Several branches of Buddhism, including Zen and Tibetan Buddhism maintain records of their historical teachers who, according to the traditional history of that school, have passed the Dharma, or Buddhist teachings, ...
  • An evolutionary lineage is a sequence of species, that form a line of descent, each new species the direct result of speciation from an immediate ancestral species. Lineages are subsets of the evolutionary tree of life. Lineages are often determined by the techniques of molecular systematics.
  • A genetic lineage is a series of mutations which connect an ancestral genetic type (allele, haplotype, or haplogroup) to derivative type. ...