Definitions for ancestries

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ancestries an·ces·try

Spelling: [an-ses-tree or, esp. British, -suh-stree]

IPA: /ˈæn sɛs tri or, esp. British, -sə stri/

Ancestries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1042 anagrams from letters in ancestries (aceeinrsst).

Definitions for ancestries

noun

1. family or ancestral descent; lineage.
2. honorable or distinguished descent:
3. a series of ancestors:
4. the inception or origin of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.
5. the history or developmental process of a phenomenon, object, idea, or style.

Origin of ancestries

1300-50; Middle English, equivalent to ancestre ancestor + -y³; replacing Middle English aunce(s)trie Anglo-French

Examples for ancestries

We were shunned everywhere by both races from which we trace our ancestry.

If you study your characteristics and talents 26 you find that they repeat those of your ancestry.

That meant the Clovis child should have been of European ancestry.

But for anyone curious enough to ask, she cited a mixed Native American ancestry.

Think not I am going to say that you put to shame in any way your ancestry—far from it.

The central issue of Kennewick Man was his ancestry: Was he of European origin?

Still, for all this irritating abuse Vulp had only himself and his ancestry to blame.

Diana found to have Irish ancestry - so will William, Kate and baby George now visit the Emerald Isle?

Our parents both had almond eyes, almost Asian-looking, and yet our ancestry was Irish and German.

His ancestry is among the most honorable known in American society.