Ancestry
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English
Noun
Ancestry (plural ancestries)- Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
- A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
Adjectives for Ancestry
dubious; pre-human; illustrious; revolution¬ary; mixed; remote; rustic; insignificant; select; healthy; hard-working; shabby; spiritual; far-renowned.
Synonyms for Ancestry
lineage, parentage, blood, stock, race, pedigree, descent, line, family.
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Thesaurus
affiliation; agnate; agnation; alliance; aristocracy; aristocraticalness; birth; blood; blood relation; blood relationship; blood relative; blue blood; breed; breeding; brotherhood; brothership; clansman; cognate; cognation; collateral; collateral relative; common ancestry; common descent; connection; connections; consanguinean; consanguinity; cousinhood; cousinship; derivation; descent; distaff side; distant relation; distinction; enate; enation; extraction; family; fatherhood; filiation; flesh; flesh and blood; folks; fraternity; genteelness; gentility; german; honorable descent; kin; kindred; kinfolk; kinnery; kinsfolk; kinship; kinsman; kinsmen; kinswoman; kith and kin; line; lineage; maternity; matrilineage; matriliny; matrisib; matrocliny; motherhood; near relation; next of kin; nobility; noble birth; nobleness; origin; paternity; patrilineage; patriliny; patrisib; patrocliny; pedigree; people; posterity; propinquity; quality; race; rank; relation; relations; relationship; relatives; royalty; sib; sibling; sibship; sisterhood; sistership; source; spear kin; spear side; spindle kin; spindle side; stock; sword side; ties of blood; tribesman; uterine kin
Etymology
Cf. Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.
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