Synonyms for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə strian·ces·t·ry

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1. 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, argument

2. ancestry, 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

Matched Categories

1. • Genealogy
   • Inheritance

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1. ancestrynoun

   Synonyms:
   lineage, family, race, house, line of ancestors

2. ancestrynoun

   Synonyms:
   pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent

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1. ancestrynoun

   Synonyms:
   lineage, descent, pedigree, stock, ancestors, progenitors

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancestry":

   descent, ancestors, progeny, origin, ancestor, parentage, ancestral

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1. Anna Swayne:

   I think that the desire to use genetic ancestry testing has really changed over the sort of 12-15 year duration of the industry.

2. Iosif Lazaridis:

   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.

3. Zenobia Jacobs:

   So, the Denisovan ancestry in living Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean people could, therefore, be the result of direct interbreeding between their ancestors and Denisovans, but we do not know where this interaction took place.

4. Paul Linehan:

   A third of Americans can trace their ancestry to Ellis Island. … So much of American greatness has been tracked back through those immigrants who came.

5. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert:

   I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.