Ancestry

Noun

 * 1) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth  or honorable descent.
 * 2) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Adjectives for Ancestry
dubious; pre-human; illustrious; revolution¬ary; mixed; remote; rustic; insignificant; select; healthy; hard-working; shabby; spiritual; far-renowned.

Synonyms for Ancestry
lineage, parentage, blood, stock, race, pedigree, descent, line, family.

Related terms

 * ancestor

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

Etymology
Cf. Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

Translations

 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: voorouders, afstamming
 * German: Vorfahren
 * Greek: γενεαλογία (yenealoyia), καταγωγή (katagoge) , γενεαλογικό δένδρο (yenealoyiko dentro) , πρόγονοι (progoni) NaN undefineds


 * Scottish Gaelic: sinnsearachd
 * Serbian: poreklo, postanak, preci
 * Spanish: linaje