Synonyms for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə stri

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1. 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, argument

2. ancestry, 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

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1. ancestry(n.)

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

2. ancestry(n.)

   Synonyms:
   pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent

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1. ancestry(n)

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

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1. List of paraphrases:

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

How to pronounce ancestry?

Alex

US English

Daniel

British

Karen

Australian

Veena

Indian

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How to use ancestry in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. William Ralph Inge:

   A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

3. John Phillips Marquand:

   It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

4. Eske Willerslev:

   This individual is the missing link of Native American ancestry.

5. Dean Inge:

   A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

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