
Word: Ancestry
How to pronounce: ˈænsəstrɪ
Noun
Definitions:
1. One's family or ethnic descent.
Example sentences: "His Viking ancestry"
2. The origin or background of something.
Example sentences: "The book traces the ancestry of women's poetry"
Synonyms:
origin
pedigree
genealogy
lineage
descent
bloodline
blood
derivation
filiation
line
family tree
parentage
Derivations:
ancestor
ancestress
ancestral
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Ancestry in Other Languages...
Spanish: Ascendencia
German: Abstammung
French: Ancêtres
Italian: Ascendenza
Turkish: Soy