family line

Thesaurus

Noun

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family line - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, folk, familypeople - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same familygens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"