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LINE OF DESCENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The descendants of one individual
Example:
his entire lineage has been warriors
Synonyms:
ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("line of descent" is a kind of...):
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "line of descent"):
family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)
side (a family line of descent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Synonyms:
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("line of descent" is a kind of...):
family relationship; kinship; relationship ((anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "line of descent"):
bilateral descent (line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family)
unilateral descent (line of descent traced through one side of the family)
