lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or extraction

She could trace her lineage to the early Pilgrims.

the line of descendants of a particular ancestor; family; race.

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birth , blood , breed , clan , descendants , descent , extraction , family , folk , forebears , genealogy , heredity , house , kin , kindred , line , offspring , origin , pedigree , progenitors , progeny , race , stirps , stock , succession , tribenotes:linage (pronounced lye-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material , as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced lin-ee-ij) refers to ancestry , derivation , or line of descent , bloodline , parentage , seed , tribe , ancestry , background , stemma , tree