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

In the healing traditions of northern Peru, curanderos, or traditional healers, usually train through years of apprenticeship, often within family lineages. — Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026

One of the lineages appears to have interbred directly with Homo sapiens in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, while the other was an even older group that passed some of its DNA to humans indirectly through Denisovans. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

In addition, the way in initial cases occurred in clusters within the market and the distribution of the earliest viral lineages, is consistent with the likelihood that several separate animal-to-human spillover events took place in late 2019. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Aug. 2026

Rather than reflecting genuinely absent enzymes, these gaps could simply mirror methodological limitations in the phylogenetic reconstruction that prevented the identification of all the original ancient enzymes in bacterial and archaean lineages. — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

The fossil indicates that lineages closely related to the Euparkeriidae were also present in South America, highlighting the continent’s role in the early diversification of the relatives of dinosaurs and crocodiles. — The Conversation, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026

So there seems to be something actively problematic with the DNA from those lineages in these regions. — ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026

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