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ancestry

[ an-ses-treeor, especially British, -suh-stree ]

noun

plural ancestries.
  1. family or ancestral descent; lineage.

    Synonyms: stock, genealogy, pedigree

  2. honorable or distinguished descent:

    famous by title and ancestry.

  3. a series of ancestors:

    His ancestry settled Utah.

    Synonyms: line, family

  4. the inception or origin of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.
  5. the history or developmental process of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.


ancestry

/ ˈænsɛstrɪ /

noun

  1. lineage or descent, esp when ancient, noble, or distinguished
  2. ancestors collectively
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ancestry1

1300–50; Middle English, equivalent to ancestre ancestor + -y 3; replacing Middle English aunce ( s ) trie < Anglo-French
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Example Sentences

Through research into her ancestry and family tree, her brother-in-law made an alarming discovery.

From BBC

Blackwell, in written responses to questions from The Times, said she accepted the grant last May, before she learned about her true ancestry.

In recent years, the Office for Civil Rights has focused increasingly on investigating allegations of antisemitism, anti-Arab bias and other complaints of discrimination based on race and shared ancestry.

Shortly after, 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S., many of them citizens, were forced into incarceration camps under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.

Unruh bans discrimination by California businesses based on age, ancestry, color, disability, national origin and a variety of other factors.

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