noun · formal
lineage
UK/ˈlɪnɪɪdʒ/US/ˈlɪniɪdʒ/LI·nage
Band 7+task2speaking
the line of descendants or ancestors of a person; family line
Examples
“She traced her lineage back to the eighteenth century.”
“Royal lineage was important for claims to the throne.”
“DNA tests helped confirm the family's lineage.”
Band 8 sentence
“Thanks to newly available archives, historians were able to trace the royal lineage with unprecedented detail.”
Collocations
- trace someone's lineage
- royal lineage
Word family
lineage noun
Common mistakes
He comes from a very long lineage family.→He comes from a very long lineage.
She traced the line of her lineage.→She traced her lineage.
Say it for a higher band
5family background→6ancestry→7+lineage
Synonyms
ancestry
Easily confused
ancestry
“She traced her lineage back to the seventeenth century.”
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