Meaning of ANCESTRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'ansestree
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- [n] inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- [n] the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
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| | Synonyms: | | blood, blood line, bloodline, derivation, descent, filiation, line, line of descent, lineage, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock |
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| | See Also: | | bloodline, breed, breed, descent, extraction, family, family line, family tree, folk, genealogy, hereditary pattern, inheritance, kinfolk, kinsfolk, origin, pedigree, phratry, sept, side, strain | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \An"ces*try\, n. [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See {Ancestor}.]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | affiliation, agnate, agnation, alliance, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, birth, blood, blood relation, blood relationship, blood relative, blue blood, breed, breeding, brotherhood, brothership, clansman, cognate, cognation, collateral, collateral relative, common ancestry, common descent, connection, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, derivation, descent, distaff side, distant relation, distinction, enate, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, filiation, flesh, flesh and blood, folks, fraternity, genteelness, gentility, german, honorable descent, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, near relation, next of kin, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, origin, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pedigree, people, posterity, propinquity, quality, race, rank, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, royalty, sib, sibling, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, source, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, sword side, ties of blood, tribesman, uterine kin |
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