LINE OF DESCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does line of descent mean? 

• LINE OF DESCENT (noun)
  The noun LINE OF DESCENT has 2 senses:

1. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

2. the descendants of one individual

  Familiarity information: LINE OF DESCENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINE OF DESCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock

Context example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

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)

 Context examples 

A single step in the line of descent from a common ancestor.

(Generation, NCI Thesaurus)