Noun
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.
- A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended
- Synonym: lineage
I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.
Translations
condition as to ancestors
- Asturian: llinaxe m, ascendencia f
- Catalan: llinatge (ca) m, ascendència (ca) f
- Dutch: voorouders (nl), afstamming (nl)
- French: ascendance (fr) f
- Galician: xaramea f, alcuña f, fonduxe f, castuaxe f, avoenga f, tronquidade f, ascendencia f, liñaxe (gl) f
- German: Vorfahren (de) m pl
- Greek: γενεαλογία (el) f (genealogía), καταγωγή (el) f (katagogí), γενεαλογικό δένδρο n (genealogikó déndro), πρόγονοι (el) m pl (prógonoi)
- Italian: ascendenza (it) f, stirpe (it)
- Persian: پروز (fa) (parvaz)
- Polish: pochodzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: ascendência (pt) f
- Russian: родосло́вная (ru) f (rodoslóvnaja), происхожде́ние (ru) n (proisxoždénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: sinnsearachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: порекло n / поријекло n
- Roman: poreklo (sh) n / porijeklo (sh) n, postanak (sh), preci (sh)
- Spanish: linaje (es) m, ascendencia (es) f, abolengo (es), alcurnia (es)
- Welsh: ach f
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series of ancestors or progenitors