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Definition of Lineage

Lineage

  1. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Lineage Quotations

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
Shia LaBeouf

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
Leon Kass

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
Rick Moody

The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.
Josh Gad
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Lineage Translations

lineage in Afrikaans is herkoms
lineage in Danish is afstamning
lineage in Dutch is komaf, afstamming, afkomst
lineage in French is lignage
lineage in German is Abstammung {f}
lineage in Italian is derivazione
lineage in Latin is progenies
lineage in Spanish is linaje, filiacion

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