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    ancestry
    /ˈansɛstri/

    noun

    • 1. one's family or ethnic descent: "he was proud of his Irish ancestry"
    • 2. the origin or background of something: "the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry"

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishANCESTRY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    ANCESTRY definition: 1. your ancestors who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: 2. your ancestors who…. Learn more.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › ancestryAncestry Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    1. : line of descent : lineage. especially : honorable, noble, or aristocratic descent. 2. : persons initiating or comprising a line of descent : ancestors. Synonyms. birth. bloodline. breeding. descent. extraction. family tree. genealogy. lineage. origin. parentage. pedigree. stock. strain. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus.

  4. www.dictionary.com › browse › ancestryANCESTRY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Ancestry definition: family or ancestral descent; lineage.. See examples of ANCESTRY used in a sentence.

  5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › ancestryAncestry - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    If you think ancestry sounds like ancestor, then you're headed in the right direction. Ancestry is basically a history of ancestors, a trail of where your family started and all the descendants that followed. But ancestry goes much further than just your great-great-grand uncle's brother.

  6. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryANCESTRY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    noun [ U or C ] us / ˈæn.ses.tri / uk / ˈæn.ses.tri / Add to word list. your ancestors who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: He was proud of his Native American ancestry. His wife was of royal ancestry. The family has traced its ancestry back to the Norman invaders. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. your ancestors.

  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishANCESTRY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people. ...a family who could trace their ancestry back to the sixteenth century. American English : ancestry / ˈænsɛstri /

  8. www.thefreedictionary.com › ancestryAncestry - definition of ancestry by The Free Dictionary

    Define ancestry. ancestry synonyms, ancestry pronunciation, ancestry translation, English dictionary definition of ancestry. n. pl. an·ces·tries 1. Ancestral descent or lineage. 2. Ancestors considered as a group. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth...

  9. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishancestry noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

    ancestry. noun. /ˈænsestri/. /ˈænsestri/. [countable, usually singular, uncountable] (plural ancestries) the family or the group of people that you come from. to have Scottish ancestry. He was able to trace his ancestry back over 1 000 years.

  10. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishANCESTRY | meaning - Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

    ANCESTRY definition: your relatives who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: . Learn more.

  11. www.britannica.com › dictionary › ancestryAncestry Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    ANCESTRY meaning: a person's ancestors the people who were in your family in past times.