Definitions for ancestry
ˈæn sɛs tri; esp. Brit. -sə strian·ces·t·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stocknoun

   the descendants of one individual

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"

2. ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiationnoun

   inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ancestrynoun

   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.

2. ancestrynoun

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

3. Etymology: From ancesserie. See ancestor.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ancestrynoun

   Etymology: from ancestor.

   1. Lineage; a series of ancestors, or progenitors; the persons who compose the lineage.

   Phedon I hight, quoth he; and do advance
   Mine ancestry from famous Coradin,
   Who first to raise our house to honour did begin. Fairy Q.

   A tenacious adherence to the rights and liberties transmitted from a wise and virtuous ancestry, publick spirit, and a love of one’s country, are the support and ornaments of government. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 5.

   Say from what scepter’d ancestry ye claim,
   Recorded eminent in deathless fame? Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

   2. The honour of descent; birth.

   Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one, more contemptible. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 123.

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1. ancestry

   An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). Ancestor is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited."Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy.Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2n ancestors in the nth generation before her/him and a total of 2g+1 − 2 ancestors in the g generations before him/her. In practice, however, it is clear that most ancestors of humans (and any other species) are multiply related (see pedigree collapse). Consider n = 40: the human species is more than 40 generations old, yet the number 240, approximately 1012 or one trillion, dwarfs the number of humans who have ever lived. Some cultures confer reverence to ancestors, both living and dead; in contrast, some more youth-oriented cultural contexts display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek providence from their deceased ancestors; this practice is sometimes known as ancestor worship or, more accurately, ancestor veneration.

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1. ancestry

   Ancestry refers to one's lineage or descent from past generations, commonly traced through family lines. It embraces the heritage, culture, and the traditions of one's forebears. It can also relate to the country, ethnicity, or racial group that a person's relatives belong to. In genetics, it may mean genetic heritage where specific traits may have been passed down.

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1. Ancestrynoun

   condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent

2. Ancestrynoun

   a series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent

3. Etymology: [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See Ancestor.]

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1. • Genealogy
   • Inheritance

How to pronounce ancestry?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestry in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ancestry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ancestry in a Sentence

1. Zenobia Jacobs:

   So, the Denisovan ancestry in living Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean people could, therefore, be the result of direct interbreeding between their ancestors and Denisovans, but we do not know where this interaction took place.

2. Marc Haber:

   Our findings give us an unprecedented view of the ancestry of the people who fought in the Crusader army. And it wasn't just Europeans, we see this exceptional genetic diversity in the Near East during medieval times, with Europeans, Near Easterners, and mixed individuals fighting in the Crusades and living and dying side by side.

3. Iosif Lazaridis:

   We may be removing some of the mystique surrounding these people by showing that they weren't that different from the people that came before or after them, the Minoans and Mycenaeans didn't have any special ancestry: they were made of the same basic ‘stuff’ as other people from Europe and the Middle East. So we can't answer the question of why these civilizations flourished thousands of years ago, but we can at least cast some light on who they were and where they came from.

4. Vagheesh Narasimhan:

   About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual.

5. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert:

   I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ancestry
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ancestry
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ancestry
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ancestry