A group of persons descended from a common ancestor, and so connected by blood-relationship; a family, stock, clan; †in Old English also, people…

Generation, descent, lineage; a race, breed, stock; offspring, progeny; = strain, n.1 4–7.

A family; a person's kin; a race, a tribe; a people or nation.

A people, an ethnic group, a tribe, a race. Also: a family. Cf. kind, n. 10.

Lineage; descent. Cf. birth, n.1 2.

A family including ancestors and descendants; a lineage, esp. a noble, royal, or wealthy dynasty having continuity of residence in a particular place.

A group of people descended, or claiming descent, from a common ancestor; a family, a clan; an ethnic group, a tribe. Cf. kin, n.1 1, kindred, n. 3b…

A group of people descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor; a clan, tribe, etc.; = kin, n.1 1, kind, n. 10a. Also in the human kindred…

Persons of a specified family or lineage collectively; blood relations, kindred.

The descendants of a common ancestor; a race, stock, line.

quasi-concrete. (Chiefly collective) A family or race viewed with reference to its descent; a tribe, clan. spec. in Cultural Anthropology, patri- or…

Family, breed; (also) a sort or kind of person. Cf. breed, n. 2. Now U.S. regional (southern and south Midland).

A race, stock, or line descended from a common ancestor; a family, clan, or tribe. Obsolete.

Figurative uses developed from sense A. 2. A line of descent; the descendants of a common ancestor, a family, kindred.

A family, kindred. Obsolete. rare.

A particular race of recognized ancestry; a family.

= lineage, n. (Frequently in Caxton.)

In concrete applications relating to living beings. One's family or line, lineage; descendants. Obsolete.

Those descended or claiming descent from a common ancestor; a lineage.

A lineage, a stock.

The origins of one's parents and ancestors in relation to inherited rank or character; hereditary status or quality. Usually with modifying word.

The stock of a family; a line of descent; a race, clan, or sept; the descendants of a common ancestor. Also abstract, pedigree, lineage. Now somewhat…

A long series or list of people; a succession, a line.

A group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ancestor; a house, family, kindred. Cf. kin, n.1 1a.

The stock of a family; the main line of descent from which the ‘branches’ of a family are offshoots; the descendants of a particular ancestor. Also…

Race, lineage, stock, family; strain; a line of descendants from a particular parentage, and… of men, etc.: now often contemptuous.

Generation; production, crop.

Roman History. The slaves of a particular household; (also more widely) a household or family. Cf. paterfamilias, n. 2.

In feudal Japan, a name indicating which ancestral noble family the bearer belonged to; a patriarchal lineage group comprising all those with the…