Synonyms for ancestry

Grammar : Noun

Spell : an-ses-tree or, esp. British, -suh-stree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn sɛs tri or, esp. British, -sə stri

Top 10 synonyms for ancestry

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Définition of ancestry

Origin : early 14c., from Old French ancesserie "ancestry, ancestors, forefathers," from ancestre (see ancestor); spelling modified in English by influence of ancestor.

noun family predecessors; family history

Example sentences :

His ancestry is among the most honorable known in American society.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

If you study your characteristics and talents 26 you find that they repeat those of your ancestry.
Extract from : « Almost A Man » by Mary Wood-Allen

We were shunned everywhere by both races from which we trace our ancestry.
Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks

Think not I am going to say that you put to shame in any way your ancestry—far from it.
Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon

Still, for all this irritating abuse Vulp had only himself and his ancestry to blame.
Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees

I envy you what smacks of a race, a name, an ancestry, a lineage.
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

He had heard of the vast domains of his ancestry, from his cradle.
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

Historically, we need not accept this identity of the Clemens ancestry.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Clemens, and Phelps too, it seems, felt overshadowed by this ancestry.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

It was at once a recognition of himself and his ancestry for generations back.
Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Antonyms for ancestry

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