ancestry

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/

Noun

ancestry (plural ancestries)

1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

   Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.

2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Related terms

• ancestor

Translations

• French: ascendance
• German: Vorfahren
• Italian: ascendenza (it), stirpe
• Portuguese: ascendência
• Russian: родосло́вная
• Spanish: linaje, ascendencia, abolengo, alcurnia

Translations

• German: Vorväter, Ahnen
• Italian: avi, antenati, progenitori

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