Definitions for lineage

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lineage lin·e·age

Spelling: [lin-ee-ij]

IPA: /ˈlɪn i ɪdʒ/

Lineage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in lineage (aeegiln).

Definitions for lineage

noun

1. lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction:
2. the line of descendants of a particular ancestor; family.
3. linage.
4. the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
5. the amount charged, paid, or received per printed line, as of a magazine article or short story.
6. Archaic. alignment.

Origin of lineage

1275-1325; line(al) + -age; replacing Middle English linage Anglo-French; Old French lignage Vulgar Latin *līneāticum. See Examples for lineage

Once Udo Jr. realized his lineage, he also wanted in on the inheritance.

For me, in a weird way, I see a lineage between the first two records and this Voidz record.

I will not say nay to it, quoth he, and asked her name and lineage.

Nothing that we know of in the circumstances of their birth or lineage will explain their appearance.

He then commanded all the lineage of David to be put to death.

Heinz traces its lineage to 1869 and first started making ketchup in 1876.

Its lineage and imagery persists in the worst of modern Arab and Muslim hate propaganda.

I envy you what smacks of a race, a name, an ancestry, a lineage.

So too we are uninformed as to his lineage, except that his father's name was Simon.

He adds that he has "long been a fan of Hugo Boss's vast tradition and lineage in extraordinary tailoring."