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# lineage

«lineage» in Mova's school dictionary: **the line of your ancestors, the family members who came…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lineage, lineages)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lineage is the line of your ancestors, the family members who came before you, such as parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#m1)

2) (science) A lineage is a line of living things that descend from a common ancestor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

History and family studies: kings and queens and their lineage, family trees. Science: evolution and lineages of species. Bible: the lineage of Jesus in Matthew and Luke. It tells the reader where someone comes from.

### examples

- The queen could trace her lineage back hundreds of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x1)
- We drew a family tree to show our lineage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x2)
- Birds come from a lineage of dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x3)
- The Bible gives the lineage of King David. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x4)
- The horse had a famous lineage of champions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x5)
- Her lineage includes Irish and Italian ancestors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/#x6)

### note

Say «LIN-ee-ij» (three parts), not «line-age». Plural: lineages.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lineage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lineage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.