ancestry
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/
ancestry (plural ancestries)
- 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.
- A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
- French: ascendance
- German: Vorfahren
- Italian: ascendenza (it), stirpe
- Portuguese: ascendência
- Russian: родосло́вная
- Spanish: linaje, ascendencia, abolengo, alcurnia
- German: Vorväter, Ahnen
- Italian: avi, antenati, progenitori
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