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Definition of "ancestry" []

  • Ancestral descent or lineage. (noun)
  • Ancestors considered as a group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ancestry" in a sentence
  • "With clades the ancestry is assumed depending on shared characteristic traits."
  • "To apologize or compensate people because of their ancestry is ridiculous."
  • "Obviously African-American ancestry is different from Irish-American ancestry and we would expect some statistical differences."