lineage
EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English linage, from Old French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); see line.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lineage (plural lineages)
- Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
- 2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Stick insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC[1]:
- They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.
- (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
- 1927, William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical:
- Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
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Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
descent
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number of lines
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- lineage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lineage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911