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- Dictionaryancestry/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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ANCESTRY definition: 1. your ancestors who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: 2. your ancestors who…. Learn more.
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.
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.
Ancestry definition: family or ancestral descent; lineage.. See examples of ANCESTRY used in a sentence.
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.
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 /
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...
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.
ANCESTRY definition: your relatives who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: . Learn more.
Britannica Dictionary definition of ANCESTRY. : a person's ancestors : the people who were in your family in past times. [noncount] They claim to be of noble ancestry. an Englishman of German ancestry = an Englishman who is German by ancestry. a person of unknown ancestry.
