ancient lineage
Long family history
Ancient lineage refers to family descent traceable through many generations, typically suggesting nobility, prestige, or historical significance.
The phrase emphasizes unbroken succession over centuries: a family of ancient lineage, The castle has belonged to a house of ancient lineage since the 1200s.
It often carries connotations of inherited status or aristocratic heritage.
- noble bloodAristocratic family descent
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- blood tiesFamilial relationships through ancestry
- matriarchFemale family leader
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
founding fathers · progenitor · long line · heritage · oral history · oral tradition · totem · forebear · tribal identity · clade · phylogeny · legacy · ancestral spirits · living fossil · prehistoric · time immemorial · ancestral wisdom · tradition
- bristletails
- Volsung sagaSigurd, Gunnar, Sigmund, cursed ring, gold hoard
ancient lineagenouveau riche
Recently wealthy, often showy
new money · parvenus · newcomers · new arrival · arrivistes