| Noun | 1. | family line - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day" house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York" dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, blood, parentage, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" | |