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noun

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; race.

Origin:
1275–1325; line(al) + -age; replacing Middle English linage < Anglo-French; Old French lignage < Vulgar Latin *līneāticum. See line¹, -age

Synonyms
1. pedigree, parentage, derivation, genealogy. 2. tribe, clan.

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linage.

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linage or lineage (ˈlaɪnɪdʒ)

—n
1.	the number of lines in a piece of written or printed matter
2.	payment for written material calculated according to the number of lines
3.	a less common word for alignment

lineage or lineage

—n

lineage¹ (ˈlɪnɪɪdʒ)

—n
1.	direct descent from an ancestor, esp a line of descendants from one ancestor
2.	a less common word for derivation

[C14: from Old French lignage, from Latin līnealine¹]

lineage² (ˈlaɪnɪdʒ)

—n
	a variant spelling of linage

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Word Origin & History

lineage

c.1300, from O.Fr. lignage, from ligne "line," from L. linea (see line (n.)).

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lineage

descent group reckoned through only one parent, either the father (patrilineage) or the mother (matrilineage). All members of a lineage trace their common ancestry to a single person. A lineage may comprise any number of generations but commonly is traced through some 5 or 10

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"Kennedy benefited, too, from the fact that the country perceived him to be, like Roosevelt, a patrician. To be sure, Kennedy did not boast a seventeenth-century lineage or descend from the landed gentry. Yet in other respects they were similar. Both had gone to prestigious prep schools; both were Harvard men; both had sailed the New England coast; each had a sense of noblesse oblige. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy was a man of inherited wealth who could, to a degree, view business from the outside. In comparing Kennedy to Roosevelt, a columnist for the New Republic observed: "Each had an upper-class education, found a life of public service more attractive than money-grabbing, and each had a respect for the decencies. At heart, too, each had a kind of patrician reticence, an impervious private dignity.""

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