2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ancestry \An"ces*try\, n. [Cf. OF ancesserie See {Ancestor}.]
1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence birth
or honorable descent.
Title and ancestry render a good man more
illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
--Addison.
2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those
who compose the line of natural descent.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ancestry
n 1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent},
{descent}, {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {pedigree},
{origin}, {parentage}, {stock}]
2: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
[syn: {lineage}, {derivation}, {filiation}]
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