LINAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linage mean? 

• LINAGE (noun)
  The noun LINAGE has 2 senses:

1. the number of lines in a piece of printed material

2. a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

  Familiarity information: LINAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of lines in a piece of printed material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

linage; lineage

Hypernyms ("linage" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

linage; lineage

Hypernyms ("linage" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)

 Context examples 

They say that ivory from western linage walruses must have been supplied by the Norse Greenlanders – by hunting and perhaps also by trade with the indigenous peoples of Arctic North America.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)