Ancestry Meaning and Definition


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What is the definition Ancestry? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Antonyms, Words starting with Ancestry, Synonyms, Related sentences, How to pronounce? Words ending with Ancestry, Example sentences, Derivations and more...

Ancestry meaning

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


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