Synonyms of lineages

lineages

noun

plural of lineage

1

as in ancestries

the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended

his Italian lineage was very important to him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestries
• pedigrees
• genealogies
• origins
• families
• descents
• bloodlines
• breedings
• blood
• strains
• extractions
• births
• stocks
• family trees
• lines
• relatives
• successions
• parentages
• races
• relations
• houses
• kindreds
• kins
• heredities

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• issues
• seed
• progenies
• offspring
• posterities
• sons
• children
• successors
• heirs
• inheritors

2

as in families

a group of persons who come from the same ancestor

it is now generally accepted that the lineage of Thomas Jefferson includes black as well as white members

Synonyms & Similar Words

• families
• tribes
• clans
• houses
• races
• people
• descendants
• dynasties
• folks
• blood
• households
• kindreds
• stocks
• kins
• kinsfolk
• lines
• kinfolks
• relatives
• progenies
• offspring
• scions
• nuclear families
• extended families
• issues
• broods
• seed
• clansmen
• kinsmen
• blended families
• kiths
• kinswomen

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• origins
• births
• pedigrees
• extractions
• descents
• ancestries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lineages

The research team, led by Ellie Bourgikos and Nathan Grubaugh at the Yale School of Public Health, estimates that one of the virus’s two major lineages arrived in the Northeast by the early 1700s. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Because everyone will have access to the same information, AI will accentuate the value of personal connections, again promoting lineages and networks that at their most extreme may appear to be sinister establishment conspiracies. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Once this was confirmed, the team started checking fossil collections in other museums across America, looking for youngsters of other ancient lineages to see whether the missing tadpole phase was a broader evolutionary trend. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026

Both of his parents are of Italian descent, with family lineages originating in the Calabria region of southern Italy. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026

Why Stanley Tucci Is Synonymous With Italy Both of Tucci’s parents are of Italian descent, with family lineages originating in the Calabria region of southern Italy. — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2026

The broader aim is to build vaccines that provide protection across entire viral lineages rather than single strains. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 June 2026

Her fiction concentrates thematically upon the emotional and psychological currents traversing the bonds across lineages — whether those connections are well-wrought, addled, severed, or unknown — and the fraught business of familial inheritance. — Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026