#family_line__family__folk__kinfolk__kinsfolk__sept__phratry people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
supertype: blood_line__bloodline__lineage__line__line_of_descent__descent__blood__pedigree__ancestry__origin__parentage__stock the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
subtype: people.family_line members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
subtype: homefolk the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"
subtype: house.family_line aristocratic family line; "the House of York"
subtype: royal_family__royalfamily__royalty__royal_line__royalline__royal_house__royalhouse royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"
instance: Bourbon.royal_family__bourbon House_of_Hanover__Hanover__Hanoverian_line Hapsburg__Habsburg Hohenzollern House_of_Lancaster__Lancaster__Lancastrian_line Plantagenet_line__Plantagenet Romanov__Romanoff Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Stuart House_of_York__York
subtype: Medici aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century
subtype: dynasty a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
subtype: Wei_dynasty__Wei any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556
subtype: Zhou_dynasty__Zhou__Chou__Chou_dynasty__Chow__Chow_dynasty the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
instance: Capet Carolingian_dynasty Liao_dynasty__Liao Han_dynasty__Han House_of_Hanover__Hanover__Hanoverian_line Hapsburg__Habsburg Hohenzollern House_of_Lancaster__Lancaster__Lancastrian_line Ming_dynasty__Ming Plantagenet_line__Plantagenet Qing_dynasty__Qing__Ch'ing__Ch'ing_dynasty__Manchu__Manchu_dynasty Romanov__Romanoff Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Shang_dynasty__Shang Stuart Sung_dynasty__Sung__Song__Song_dynasty Tang_dynasty__Tang House_of_Tudor__Tudor Valois House_of_Windsor__Windsor__windsor House_of_York__York Yuan_dynasty__Yuan__Mongol_dynasty
subtype: gens__name family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"
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