Definitions for ancestry

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ancestry an·ces·try

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

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

Ancestry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 481 anagrams from letters in ancestry (acenrsty).

Definitions for ancestry

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 ancestry

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

Examples for ancestry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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