lineage

CEFRB2

/ˈlɪn.i.ɪd͡ʒ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The people in a family over many generations.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A fee or rate paid per line of text.

Examples

  • Pray, of what land or lineage should I rightly call you?

  • The young rabbi often brags about his lineage.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A number of lines of text in a column.

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

More examples

In context

  • Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide, / Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,

  • Theſe Anius Ueres [Marcus Annius Verus, father of Marcus Aurelius] was a lygnage, that auanced them to be deſcẽded [descended] of Numa Pompilio, and of Quintꝰ [Quintus] Curtius the famous Romayn: […]

  • They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

By studying old documents, the historian traced the noble family's blank back to the 15th century.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age.