单词 | ancestry |
释义 | ancestry/ˈansɛstri![]() noun (plural ancestries) 1One’s family or ethnic descent: he was proud of his Irish ancestry...
Synonyms ancestors, forebears, forefathers, progenitors, antecedents; family tree; lineage, line, descent, family, parentage, extraction, origin, derivation, genealogy, heredity, pedigree, blood, bloodline, stock, strain, roots rare filiation, stirps 1.1The evolutionary or genetic line of descent of an animal or plant: the ancestry of the rose is extremely complicated...
2The origin or background of something: the book traces the ancestry of women’s poetry...
OriginMiddle English: alteration of Old French ancesserie, from ancestre (see ancestor). |
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