Noun
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. Neve Campbell
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley
What value is lineage to a drowning man? Robert Silverberg
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. Leon Kass
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling. Lynn Collins
Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not have disdained to ally yourself peacefully with one so nobly born, the ruler of so many nations. Caratacus