Ancestry Definition

ănsĕstrē
ancestries
noun
ancestries
Ancestral descent or lineage.
American Heritage
Family descent or lineage.
Webster's New World
Ancestors considered as a group.
American Heritage
Ancestors collectively.
Webster's New World
Noble or distinguished descent.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Ancestry

Noun

Singular:
ancestry
Plural:
ancestries

Origin of Ancestry

  • Middle English auncestrie alteration (influenced by auncestre ancestor) of Old French ancesserie from ancessour ancestor from Latin antecessor ancestor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

    From Wiktionary

Ancestry Sentence Examples

  • Some of these tribes show traces of Malay ancestry.

  • This type of testing is considered more of a "deep ancestry" tool.

  • He was a descendant of Thomas Webster, of Scottish ancestry, who settled in New Hampshire about 1636.

  • Testing your mitochondrial DNA will give you some interesting insights about your ancestry, but it will not provide you with names or dates.

  • It is impossible to enlarge upon it here; suffice it to say that the mystical and pietistic devotion of our own day, even in the Protestant churches, is nourished on works whose ancestry can be traced, through a series of intermediate links, to the writings of the pseudoAreopagite.

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Words Starting With

AANANC

Words Ending With

YRYTRY

Unscrambles

ancestry

Words Starting With A and Ending With Y

Starts With A & Ends With YStarts With AN & Ends With YStarts With A & Ends With RY

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With A8 Letter Words Ending With Y