ancestry
part of speech
noun (ancestry, ancestries)
meaning for a pupil
Your ancestry is all the people in your family who lived long before you, such as great-grandparents, and the places and groups they came from. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and family-history projects it is about family trees and where families came from. Phrases: of Irish ancestry, trace your ancestry, ancestry test.
examples
- She is of Irish and Polish ancestry. tree →
- We drew a family tree to trace our ancestry. tree →
- Many Americans have European, African or Asian ancestry. tree →
- His ancestry goes back to Viking times. tree →
- DNA tests can tell you some things about your ancestry. tree →
- Ancestry is about the past; who you are is also about your choices. tree →
note
Related: ancestor (one person), ancestral. Ancestors are people before you; descendants come after you.
Trees and pragmatics
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