Associations to the word «Lineage»

Wiktionary

LINEAGE, noun. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
LINEAGE, noun. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
LINEAGE TEMPLE, noun. An ancestral shrine.
LINEAGE TEMPLES, noun. Plural of lineage temple

Dictionary definition

LINEAGE, noun. The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors".
LINEAGE, noun. The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.
LINEAGE, noun. The number of lines in a piece of printed material.
LINEAGE, noun. A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted.
LINEAGE, noun. Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King