What are some alternative words for ancestry?
Synonyms for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə stri
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term ancestry.
Princeton's WordNet
lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock(noun)
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, filiation(noun)
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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?
Our findings give us an unprecedented view of the ancestry of the people who fought in the Crusader army. And it wasn't just Europeans, we see this exceptional genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side.
It (the book) ignores the inconvenient truth that some people on the islands can trace their Falklands ancestry back through nine generations, longer than the current borders of Argentina have existed.
About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual.
I was angry about the fact that I had to pay to go to school. I was angry at how the coach had insulted not only me, my fellow teammates, my ancestry.
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.
Translations for ancestry
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- أصلArabic
- ascendència, llinatgeCatalan, Valencian
- původCzech
- VorfahrenGerman
- γενεαλογικό δένδρο, καταγωγή, πρόγονοι, γενεαλογίαGreek
- linaje, ascendenciaSpanish
- ascendanceFrench
- sinnsearachdScottish Gaelic
- ascendenciaGalician
- ascendenza (it)Italian
- שׁוֹשׁHebrew
- voorouders, afstammingDutch
- ættNorwegian
- pochodzeniePolish
- ascendênciaPortuguese
- происхожде́ние, родосло́внаяRussian
- порекло, postanak, поријекло, preci, poreklo, porijekloSerbo-Croatian
- anorSwedish
- บรรพบุรุษThai
- نسبUrdu
- tổ tiênVietnamese
- אפשטאםYiddish
- 祖先Chinese
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