ancestry
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈæn.sɛ.stri/
:
ascendencia
- Many people today are researching their family history to learn more about their ancestry.
- common ancestry
- trace ancestry
- share a common ancestry
Kamala Harris's father is of African ancestry in part.
- Kamala Harris's father is of African ancestry in part.
- So that is genetic ancestry, that's immediate.
- The second he says inheritance from a common ancestry, right?
- And I hear Trump giving his speeches against people of my ancestry.
- The ancestry is Irish and then our ancestry is like Romani.
- So we thought maybe like N Asian, Eastern European, he did the ancestry test.
- So the sort of fundamentals of biometrics are similar in terms of facial recognition and ancestry estimation from the cranium.
- This is where our work overlaps because I use surnames as a way of looking for men who might have Scandinavian ancestry.
- We like to think of it as the topology of the tree to understand when certain organisms or their ancestry may have merged over time.
- And Frank was was pretty conscious of his Welsh ancestry.
- Let's let's start at a very basic level, going back to our earliest ancestry.
Examples
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Looking for traces of our ancestry in our DNA gets complicated very quickly.
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Forty percent of South Dakotans are of German ancestry, 16% of Scandinavian, and 10% of Irish.
Academic text (2011) -
We go back to respect and ancestry, and we go back to purpose.
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There was also talk about ancestry, and we were asked to draw our family trees.
Fiction book (2000) -
But in Korea, the family name came first and told the entire history of your ancestry.
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But even more importantly, the people must share the same ancestry or believe that they share the same ancestry.
Academic text (1999) -
All that appeals to my Irish ancestry.
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In Africa, traditional society is based on the importance of ancestry under conditions of high infant mortality.
Academic text (1994) -
Given her Irish ancestry, it might be worth asking local Catholic churches whether they know her.
Academic text (2011) -
Here we are, men of all races, with different backgrounds and ancestries, working together for a common purpose.
Synonyms
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4.1
Family history passed down from your ancestors
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5.6
A series of related people or events over time
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2.3
The family background and country where someone’s family comes from
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4.8
A family line of people or animals related by birth
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4.6
The family a person comes from, for example parents or grandparents
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5.5
A list of family members who came before you
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7.4
A record of a family's ancestors and history
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5.8
The family or ancestors that someone comes from
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5.3
A record of a person or family's ancestors that shows an important background
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5.3
Who a person's mother and father are and their family background
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6.3
A person's family origin or social background
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3.2
A group of people who are related by birth over many generations
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3.8
The people in a family who are related by blood across generations
A family line that shows where a person comes from
A record showing a person's ancestors across generations
A person's family history and ancestors
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ancestry comes from the idea of an ancestor, which meant someone who 'went before' you in the family. So ancestry means your family line, the people who came before you.