| 单词 | ancestry |
| 释义 | ancestry (once / 1760 pages) n Have a family tree hanging on the wall? Then you know a bit about your ancestry, or family history and lineage. If you think ancestry sounds like ancestor, then you're headed in the right direction. Ancestry is basically a history of ancestors, a trail of where your family started and all the descendants that followed. But ancestry goes much further than just your great-great-grand uncle's brother. You can also use the word ancestry to refer to the background of things other than people — such as the ancestry of a building or the ancestry of a nation. WORD FAMILYancestry: ancestries USAGE EXAMPLESAnother was a Belgian citizen of Turkish ancestry, according to the Foreign Ministry of Belgium. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Daily Mail did a deep dive into her ancestry. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) About one-sixth of Hawaii’s population is of Japanese ancestry, and Japan sent 1.5 million tourists to the state last year, more than any other country. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) 1n the descendants of one individual Syn|Hypo|Hyper blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept people descended from a common ancestor sidea family line of descent peoplemembers of a family line homefolkthe people of your home locality (especially your own family) housearistocratic family line dynastya sequence of powerful leaders in the same family gens, namefamily based on male descent family tree, genealogy successive generations of kin 2n inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline Syn|Hypo|Hyper derivation, filiation, lineage descent, extraction, origin properties attributable to your ancestry bloodline, pedigreeancestry of a purebred animal full blooddescent from parents both of one pure breed hereditary pattern, inheritance (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents |
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