Noun

(-)

All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}

Noun

(en noun)

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}

(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

* 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical

Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region