Lineage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINEAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• direct descent from an ancestor, also LIGNAGE, LYNAGE
• direct descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree
• a social group tracing its descent from a single ancestor.
• a sequence of species each of which is considered to have evolved from its predecessor
• a sequence of cells in the body which developed from a common ancestral cell
• Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
• the descendants of one individual
• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual\'s progenitors
• the number of lines in a piece of printed material
• a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted
• inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
• descent from an ancestor

Words related to LINEAGE

lignage9 lineages9 lynage10

Words that contain LINEAGE

lineages9 patrilineage15 patrilineages16

How to use LINEAGE in a sentence

• That he is of ancient lineage is proved by the fact that he always breeds true to type.
• I guessed at once that she was of Athenian lineage.
• And yet we have among us those who point with pride to their Norman lineage when they ought to be at work supporting their families.
• This was the Fortini, poverished of all save lineage, reckoned the best sword come up out of Italy in half a score of years.
• Go back but a hundred generations in the lineage of the most delicate girl you know, and you will find a dozen murderers.
• The broad brows and earnest eyes of the Hellenic goddess are of one divine birth and lineage with the golden hair and superb carriage of the sea-queen.
• He knew only that she was fair, and of high lineage, and that his heart turned towards her with so hot a love as never before had he put on dame or damsel.
• In all the world no man of your lineage does so shameful a deed as this.
• Then followed the long lineage of the family, going over a glorious history of eight centuries.
• Still, he was a baronet, and of very ancient lineage, and it was a triumph for the Boltons.
• The three heirs of collateral lineage were waiting for her last sigh.
• They greatly esteem an ancient lineage, which is therefore a great advantage to him who desires to be a lord.
• Alone among his contemporaries, we can venture to say of him that he was not only of the school, but of the lineage, of Wordsworth.
• Of these, seventeen, including the officers, were of European birth or lineage.
• And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David.
• He betrays his martial lineage in the vigor of his pen, and in that unswerving purpose to counteract what, in his opinion, are serious barriers to the progress of the age.
• Its members in general attempt, by noble lineage or vast possessions, to compensate for their poverty of numbers.
• Her aristocratic lineage showed in the set of her magnificent head, in the small, delicate fingers of her hand, and in the fire and richness of her eyes.
• The first Zane of whom any trace can be found was a Dane of aristocratic lineage, who was exiled from his country and came to America with William Penn.
• Thompson himself was aware of the glamour such a lineage conferred.
• Then asked he of the voice, if it should be in the yerde of his lineage.
• And Duke Joshua and Maccabaeus were of our lineage.
• The Bramins claim that they alone now have preserved their lineage in its purity.
• Gresham was a member of a wealthy and aristocratic family, proud of its lineage, which it could trace through generations of good blood to its ancestral isle.
• Because of her lineage the wrong you did her was greatly magnified in the eyes of all who saw it.
• It was the word of a stranger and a foreigner against that of a Spanish captain in his service, a man of noble lineage, and with powerful friends at the Court of Madrid.
• If Vanek were of mean lineage the king could easily make him a prince.
• If there were no legitimate successors, the succession went to the nearest relative belonging to the lineage and relationship of the chief who had been the last possessor of it.
• I was not curious of the signs I found anywhere about me of aristocratic grandeur, of the deference paid to lineage and ancient family name.

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