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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ancestry \An"ces*try\, n. [Cf. OF ancesserie See {Ancestor}.] 1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. --Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ancestry n 1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent}, {descent}, {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {pedigree}, {origin}, {parentage}, {stock}] 2: inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline [syn: {lineage}, {derivation}, {filiation}]
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