ancestry
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- ancestrie (obsolete)
- auncestrie (obsolete)
- auncestry (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.
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Noun edit
ancestry (plural ancestries)
- The state of being ancestors
- birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
- August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123
- Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: SSV Normandy:
- Tali: My people place a high value on family and ancestry. There's an unspoken expectation that I'll live up to my father's example.
- August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123
- A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended
- Synonym: lineage
- I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.
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condition as to ancestors
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series of ancestors or progenitors
References edit
- “ancestry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.