family line

Questions about family line

What does family line mean?

family line means "people descended from a common ancestor".

What is another word for family line?

Close synonyms include family, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family line a common word?

family line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.