ancestry
Meaning of ancestry
- one's family or ethnic descent.
he was proud of his Irish ancestry
- the origin or background of something.
the book traces the ancestry of women's poetry
Middle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor).
Information about ancestry
- It is a name.
- The plural form of ancestry is: ancestries.
- Languages in which ancestry is used:
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Hyphenation of ancestry
an-ces-try
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ancestry is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ancestry synonyms
Meaning lineage:
lineage, line, descent, bloodline, blood, pedigree, origin, parentage, stemma, stock, derivation, filiation
Meaning a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended:
Meaning an ancestor:
Meaning a member of the past generations of one's family or people; an ancestor:
Meaning a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent:
Meaning a person's ancestors or family and social background:
Meaning all the descendants of a common ancestor:
Meaning the ethnic origin of someone's family:
Meaning a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor:
Meaning the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another:
Meaning a force tending to pull or stretch something to an extreme or damaging degree:
Meaning the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres:
Translation of ancestry
- Spanish: ascendencia
- German: Abstammung
- French: ascendance
- Italian: ascendenza, lignaggio, stirpe
Anagrams of ancestry
Words that rhyme with ancestry
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