'ancestry' definitions:
Definition of 'ancestry'
(from WordNet)
noun
The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
noun
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation]
Synonyms of 'ancestry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- agnate,
- agnation,
- alliance,
- aristocracy,
- aristocraticalness,
- birth,
- blood,
- blood relation,
- blood relationship,
- blood relative,
- blue blood,
- breed,
- breeding,
- brotherhood,
- brothership,
- clansman,
- cognate,
- cognation,
- collateral,
- collateral relative,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- connection,
- connections,
- consanguinean,
- consanguinity,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- derivation,
- descent,
- distaff side,
- distant relation,
- distinction,
- enate,
- enation,
- extraction,
- family,
- fatherhood,
- filiation,
- flesh,
- flesh and blood,
- folks,
- fraternity,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- german,
- honorable descent,
- kin,
- kindred,
- kinfolk,
- kinnery,
- kinsfolk,
- kinship,
- kinsman,
- kinsmen,
- kinswoman,
- kith and kin,
- line,
- lineage,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- motherhood,
- near relation,
- next of kin,
- nobility,
- noble birth,
- nobleness,
- origin,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- pedigree,
- people,
- posterity,
- propinquity,
- quality,
- race,
- rank,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- relatives,
- royalty,
- sib,
- sibling,
- sibship,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- source,
- spear kin,
- spear side,
- spindle kin,
- spindle side,
- stock,
- sword side,
- ties of blood,
- tribesman,
- uterine kin