lineage

Noun

• inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

• a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

• the number of lines in a piece of printed material

• the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

• the descendants of one individual
  • his entire lineage has been warriors
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ancestry , derivation , filiation , linage , descent , line of descent