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Synonyms for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə strian·ces·t·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun
the descendants of one individual
"his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonyms:
personal credit line, inception, cable, business, billet, stemma, origination, rakehell, store, beginning, filiation, roue, agate line, lineage, crinkle, stock, telephone circuit, declivity, farm animal, linage, seam, inventory, bloodline, root, course, crease, melodic line, air, channel, short letter, production line, job, occupation, assembly line, parenthood, contrast, downslope, gillyflower, birth, product line, livestock, line of work, blood, bank line, line of merchandise, personal line of credit, rake, melody, decline, derivation, strain, neckcloth, dividing line, rootage, transmission line, breed, ocellus, gunstock, line of descent, argumentation, profligate, logical argument, phone line, furrow, rail line, parentage, wrinkle, descent, blood line, melodic phrase, fund, rip, line of business, pedigree, extraction, declination, pipeline, line of credit, line, business line, railway line, demarcation, subscriber line, line of products, origin, stock certificate, fall, communication channel, caudex, telephone line, credit line, declension, source, broth, line of reasoning, tune, note, simple eye, argumentancestry, lineage, derivation, filiationnoun
inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
Synonyms:
parentage, lineage, etymologizing, stock, stemma, descent, blood, deriving, origin, linage, line of descent, line, blood line, pedigree, bloodline, filiation, derivation
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#71 | business | |
#219 | store | |
#228 | line | |
#419 | source | |
#428 | course | |
#429 | job | |
#434 | stock | |
#460 | note | |
#478 | air | |
#1143 | cable | |
#1193 | channel | |
#1200 | fund | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1323 | blood | |
#1674 | beginning | |
#1955 | root | |
#2077 | argument | |
#2223 | birth | |
#2518 | origin | |
#3371 | inventory | |
#3990 | contrast | |
#4385 | pipeline | |
#4578 | occupation | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5858 | tune | |
#6612 | strain | |
#7432 | rip | |
#7484 | breed | |
#8143 | livestock | |
#8602 | extraction | |
#11131 | melody | |
#12080 | ancestry | |
#12456 | ancestors | |
#13070 | descent | |
#15349 | pedigree | |
#15733 | inception | |
#15790 | lineage | |
#17599 | ancestor | |
#19657 | rake | |
#19758 | seam | |
#20045 | parenthood | |
#20226 | derivation | |
#20390 | wrinkle | |
#22581 | broth | |
#22771 | ancestral | |
#22907 | billet | |
#27200 | origination | |
#28838 | deriving | |
#29173 | progeny | |
#29367 | crease | |
#38177 | declination | |
#45177 | argumentation | |
#45796 | parentage | |
#46467 | demarcation | |
#47000 | furrow | |
#55809 | bloodline | |
#65224 | crinkle | |
#107022 | profligate | |
#116269 | downslope | |
#117527 | declension | |
#146594 | gunstock | |
#150043 | roue | |
#173871 | linage | |
#228340 | filiation | |
#253199 | declivity |
How to use ancestry in a sentence?
This year marks my father's 100th birthday and the 75th anniversary of Karen Korematsu v. United States decision. At these milestones, it is a reminder that we must' Stand Up For What is Right' and' Stop Repeating History' by enacting a law that will ensure what happened to my father and 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry can never be done to anyone again in the United States.
This new, large study adds to this overall picture, but it only drew on data from people with White, British or Irish ancestry, more research is needed to build on its intriguing findings, and uncover whether these reported benefits also translate to minority communities, where historically dementia has often been misunderstood and highly stigmatised, and where awareness of how people can reduce their risk is low.
My distant cousin received an out of the blue message through Ancestry’s messaging portal from a family in Germany, it turns out that this was in regard to my uncle, Herb Harms, who died on Aug. 16, 1944, when his plane was shot down.
Democratic State Assemblyman Albert Muratsuchi:
I wanted to do something different and have California lead by example, while our nation's capital is hopelessly divided along party lines and President Trump is putting immigrant families and children in cages, the California Legislature with HR 77 will be issuing an official, bipartisan measure for its own actions taken that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire.
We may be removing some of the mystique surrounding these people by showing that they weren't that different from the people that came before or after them, the Minoans and Mycenaeans didn't have any special ancestry: they were made of the same basic ‘stuff’ as other people from Europe and the Middle East. So we can't answer the question of why these civilizations flourished thousands of years ago, but we can at least cast some light on who they were and where they came from.
Translations for ancestry
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- أصلArabic
- llinatge, ascendènciaCatalan, Valencian
- původCzech
- VorfahrenGerman
- γενεαλογία, γενεαλογικό δένδρο, καταγωγή, πρόγονοιGreek
- linaje, ascendenciaSpanish
- ascendanceFrench
- sinnsearachdScottish Gaelic
- ascendenciaGalician
- ascendenza (it)Italian
- שׁוֹשׁHebrew
- afstamming, vooroudersDutch
- ættNorwegian
- pochodzeniePolish
- ascendênciaPortuguese
- родосло́вная, происхожде́ниеRussian
- порекло, porijeklo, poreklo, preci, поријекло, postanakSerbo-Croatian
- anorSwedish
- บรรพบุรุษThai
- soyTurkish
- نسبUrdu
- tổ tiênVietnamese
- אפשטאםYiddish
- 祖先Chinese
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