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family line
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Noun family line has 1 sense
- family line(n = noun.group) family, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" has particulars: people, homefolk, house, dynasty, gens, name
is a kind of ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
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