[
UK
/ˈænsɛstɹi/
]
[ US /ˈænsɛstɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈænsɛstɹi/ ]
NOUN
-
the descendants of one individual
his entire lineage has been warriors - inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
How To Use ancestry In A Sentence
- This relates directly to their ancestry; these short-legged hounds were bred to pursue their quarry by scent over considerable distances.
- All you have to do to qualify is provide Ancestry. com with a valid email address. Archive 2005-11-01
- Today's tuberous begonias are highly bred plants of South American ancestry.
- Pretty much all Christian denominations and traditions celebrate Christmas and so it's a good reminder of our common roots and ancestry.
- It refutes your position that ancestry is not a characteristic. A New Book
- The woman in our distant ancestry who carried the mitochondrial chromosomes from which all the human mitochondrial chromosomes of the present time are descended. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
- This ancestry may also account for the difficulty of explaining the motives of Shakespeare's villains.
- Well his background, his parentage and his ancestry was Jewish.
- Like many people who have attained global recognition, the word cookie is of Old World ancestry but born and raised in New York. The English Is Coming!
- The thistle at far right signifies the Scottish-born Stewart's ancestry, that plant being Scotland's national emblem.