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单词 ancestry
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ancestry

(ænsestri)
Word forms: plural ancestries
countable noun
Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
...a family who could trace their ancestry back to the sixteenth century.
Synonyms: origin, house, family, line More Synonyms of ancestry

ancestry in British English

(ˈænsɛstrɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -tries
1. 
lineage or descent, esp when ancient, noble, or distinguished
2. 
ancestors collectively

ancestry in American English

(ˈænˌsɛstri; also, ˈænsəstri; ˈænsɪstri)
nounWord forms: plural ˈanˌcestries
1. 
family descent or lineage
2. 
ancestors collectively
see also posterity
3. 
noble or distinguished descent
Word origin
ME ancestrie < OFr ancesserie < ancestre, ancestor

Examples of 'ancestry' in a sentence
ancestry

Is it worth paying to trace your ancestry?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
How far back can you trace your own ancestry?
Goshgarian, Gary Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
The more we are encouraged to be individualistic, the more we hark back to ancestry to discern our own character.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They say folk there may differ because they trace their ancestry to the tribes that first moved into Europe as ice receded.
The Sun (2012)
She became a British citizen last year thanks to her Scottish ancestry.
The Sun (2012)
Determined to persuade shareholders that she was no pushover, she turned to her Scottish ancestry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Its ancestry may go back 2,000 years - possibly more.
Smith, Drew Food Watch (1994)
The first inhabitants and their many successors are extinct: we can trace our own direct ancestry back less than 12,000 years.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)

In other languages
ancestry

British English: ancestry NOUN
Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
...a family who could trace their ancestry back to the sixteenth century.
  • American English: ancestry
  • Brazilian Portuguese: ascendência
  • Chinese: 家世
  • European Spanish: ascendencia
  • French: ancêtres
  • German: Abstammung
  • Italian: ascendenza
  • Japanese: 家系
  • Korean: 가계
  • European Portuguese: ascendência
  • Latin American Spanish: ascendencia

(noun) 
Definition
family descent
They can trace their ancestry back to the seventeenth century.
Synonyms
origin
people of Asian origin
house
the Saudi Royal House
family
Her family came to Los Angeles at the turn of the century.
line
We were part of a long line of artists.
race
We welcome students of all races, faiths and nationalities.
stock
We are both from working-class stock.
blood
He was of noble blood, and an officer.
ancestors
descent
All the contributors were of foreign descent.
pedigree
a countess of impeccable pedigree
extraction
a young Brazilian of German extraction
lineage
They can trace their lineage back to the 18th century.
forebears
antecedents
parentage
She is a Londoner of mixed English and Jamaican parentage.
forefathers
genealogy
He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her.
derivation
The derivation of its name is obscure.
progenitors

Additional synonyms

in the sense of blood
Definition
relationship through being of the same family, race, or kind
He was of noble blood, and an officer.
Synonyms
family,
relations,
birth,
descent,
extraction,
ancestry,
lineage,
kinship,
kindred
in the sense of derivation
Definition
the origin or descent of something, such as a word
The derivation of its name is obscure.
Synonyms
origin,
source,
basis,
beginning,
root,
foundation,
descent,
ancestry,
genealogy,
etymology
in the sense of descent
Definition
derivation from an ancestor
All the contributors were of foreign descent.
Synonyms
origin,
extraction,
ancestry,
lineage,
family tree,
parentage,
heredity,
genealogy,
derivation

Synonyms of 'ancestry'

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