English

Etymology
Cf. Old French ancesserie. See Ancestor.

Pronunciation
IPA: WEAE /�æn.s�s.tɹi/

Noun
ancestry

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.

1. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Related terms
ancestor

Translations

Dutch: voorouders, afstamming
Greek: γενεαλογία (yenealoyia) f, κα�αγ�γή (katagoge) f, γενεαλογικ� δένδ�ο (yenealoyiko dentro) n, ���γονοι (progoni) m plural
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Scottish Gaelic: sinnsearachd f
Serbian: poreklo, postanak, preci

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