ancestry
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie.
Pronunciation- (America) IPA: /ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/
ancestry (plural ancestries)
- The state of being ancestors
- birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
- August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
- August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123
- A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended
- Synonyms: lineage
- I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.
- 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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