ANCESTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ancestry mean? 

• ANCESTRY (noun)
  The noun ANCESTRY has 2 senses:

1. the descendants of one individual
2. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

  Familiarity information: ANCESTRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCESTRY (noun)

Meaning:

The descendants of one individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

lineage; pedigree; bloodline; blood line; ancestry; stemma; blood; line of descent; parentage; origin; descent; stock; line

Context example:

his entire lineage has been warriors

Hypernyms ("ancestry" is a kind of...):

family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ancestry"):

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept (people descended from a common ancestor)

breed (a special lineage)

side (a family line of descent)

Meaning:

Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ancestry; filiation; derivation; lineage

Hypernyms ("ancestry" is a kind of...):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

Attribute:

purebred (bred for many generation from member of a recognized breed or strain)

crossbred (bred from a mixture of breeds or strains)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ancestry"):

breed; strain (a lineage or race of people)

descent; extraction; origin (properties attributable to your ancestry)

bloodline; pedigree (ancestry of a purebred animal)