Associations to the word «Patrilineage»

Wiktionary

PATRILINEAGE, noun. A group of descendants related through a common male lineage.

Dictionary definition

PATRILINEAGE, noun. Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope